Nginx ("engine X") is a high-performance web and reverse proxy server created by Igor Sysoev. It can be used both as a standalone web server and as a proxy to reduce the load on back-end HTTP or mail servers.

This metapackage provides a version of nginx identical to that of nginx-full, but without any third-party modules, and only modules in the original nginx code base.

STANDARD HTTP MODULES: Core, Access, Auth Basic, Auto Index, Browser, Empty GIF, FastCGI, Geo, Limit Connections, Limit Requests, Map, Memcached, Proxy, Referer, Rewrite, SCGI, Split Clients, UWSGI.

OPTIONAL HTTP MODULES: Addition, Auth Request, Charset, WebDAV, GeoIP, Gunzip, Gzip, Gzip Precompression, Headers, HTTP/2, Image Filter, Index, Log, Real IP, Slice, SSI, SSL, SSL Preread, Stub Status, Substitution, Thread Pool, Upstream, User ID, XSLT.

OPTIONAL MAIL MODULES: Mail Core, Auth HTTP, Proxy, SSL, IMAP, POP3, SMTP.

OPTIONAL STREAM MODULES: Stream Core, GeoIP