Bitnami Nginx Stack For Linux

Bitnami Nginx Stack is a freely distributed and multi-platform software project that has been designed from the ground up to simplify the deployment of the powerful Nginx web server application, as well as of its runtime dependencies, on desktop computers and laptops. It is also known as the Bitnami LEMP Stack on GNU/Linux, Bitnami WEMP Stack on Microsoft Windows and Bitnami MEMP Stack on Mac OS X.

The installer includes ready-to-run versions of the Varnish web app accelerator, the phpMyAdmin administration front-end for MySQL, SQLite database engine, ImageMagick image manipulation tool, as well as FastCGI binary protocol.

In addition to the above, the Memcache distributed memory object caching system, GD graphics library, cURL file transfer tool, PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) and PECL (PHP Extension Community Library) are also included.

Nginx is an open source, platform-independent and free web server in the style of Apache, but featuring a lightweight core and offering higher performance. Key features include a modular architecture, FastCGI support, uWSGI support, SSL and TLS SNI support, accelerated reverse proxying with caching, as well as simple load balancing and fault tolerance, XSLT, chunked responses, gzipping, Server Side Includes (SSI) and image transformation.

Despite the fact that Nginx can be deployed on personal computers using the Bitnami Nginx Stack installer, users can also run Nginx in the cloud, thanks to Bitnami’s pre-built cloud images for the Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure cloud hosting providers.

In addition to hosting Nginx in the cloud or installing on personal computers, you can virtualize it on top of the VMware ESX, ESXi and Oracle VirtualBox virtualization software, thanks to Bitnami’s virtual appliance based on the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release of the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu.