New! OpenResty 1.15.8.3 formal version is now released!
New! OpenResty 1.17.8.1 RC1 is available for testing!
New! New blog post "How OpenResty and Nginx Allocate and Manage Memory" is published.
OpenResty? is a full-fledged web platform that integrates ourenhanced version of theNginx core, our enhanced version of LuaJIT, many carefully written Lualibraries, lots of high quality 3rd-party Nginx modules, andmost of their external dependencies. It is designed to help developers easilybuild scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways.
By taking advantage of various well-designed Nginx modules (mostof which are developed by the OpenResty team themselves), OpenResty? effectivelyturns the nginx server into a powerful web app server, in which the web developerscan use the Lua programming language to script various existing nginx C modulesand Lua modules and construct extremely high-performance web applications thatare capable to handle 10K ~ 1000K+ connections in a single box.
OpenResty? aims to run your server-side web app completely in the Nginx server,leveraging Real-world applications of OpenResty? range from dynamic web portals and webgateways, web application firewalls, web service platforms for mobileapps/advertising/distributed storage/data analytics,to full-fledged dynamic web applications and web sites. The hardware used torun OpenResty? also ranges from very big metals to embedded devices with verylimited resources. It is not uncommon for our production users to serve billionsof requests daily for millions of active users with just a handful of machines. OpenResty? is not an Nginx fork. It is a higherlevel application and gateway platform using Nginx as a component.Most of the patches applied to the Nginx core in OpenResty? havealready been submitted to the official Nginx team and most ofthe patches submitted have also been accepted. We constantly import the latestfeatures and bug fixes from the official Nginx team, the official LuaJIT repository, and other sources. See Components for the complete list of software bundledin OpenResty?. See GettingStarted on how to quickly setup an OpenResty?server that can say hello world over HTTP. Or you can go to the Download sectionto grab OpenResty?'s source code tarball directly. We provide free technical support through the community on the openresty and openresty-en mailinglists. See Community. Our OpenResty Inc. company offers commercial products based on OpenRestyto its global customers, with commercial support.
