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 with the complete set of standard modules included (but omitting some of those included in nginx-extras).

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, GeoIP2, Gunzip, Gzip, Gzip Precompression, Headers, HTTP/2, Image Filter, Index, Log, Real IP, Slice, SSI, SSL, Stream, 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

THIRD PARTY MODULES: Auth PAM, DAV Ext, Echo, GeoIP2, HTTP Substitutions Upstream Fair Queue.