Tengine is a web server project initiated by Taobao. Built on top of Nginx, it adds many advanced features and functionalities tailored for high-traffic websites. The performance and stability of Tengine have been well-proven on large-scale websites such as Taobao and Tmall. Its ultimate goal is to create an efficient, stable, secure, and easy-to-use web platform.
Since December 2011, Tengine has been an open-source project, actively developed and maintained by the Tengine team. The core members of the Tengine team come from internet companies such as Taobao and Sogou. Tengine is the result of community collaboration, and we welcome everyone to get involved and contribute.
Features
- Inherits all features from Nginx-1.2.9, with 100% configuration compatibility with Nginx;
- Dynamic module loading (DSO) support. Adding a module no longer requires recompiling the entire Tengine;
- Input filter mechanism support. This mechanism makes writing web application firewalls more convenient;
- Dynamic scripting language Lua support. Extending functionality is highly efficient and simple;
- Supports pipe and syslog (local and remote) logging, as well as log sampling;
- Combines multiple CSS and JavaScript file requests into a single request;
- Enhanced load balancing capabilities, including a consistent hashing module, a session persistence module, and active health checks for backend servers, with automatic up/down management based on server status;
- Automatically sets the number of worker processes based on the number of CPUs and binds CPU affinity;
- Monitors system load and resource usage to protect the system;
- Displays more ops-friendly error messages for easier identification of failing machines;
- More powerful anti-attack (access rate limiting) module;
- More convenient command-line arguments, such as listing compiled module lists and supported directives;
- Can set expiration times based on accessed file types;