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What are some alternatives to NGINX? Is there a maintained fork with a better config? I know of Apache, but that seems to be falling out of favour lately.

jimmySixDOF 5y ago
HAProxy is one and I'd like to see a breakdown of how these config issues either spillover or are dealt with differently in that environment.
- exciteabletom 5y ago
  Thanks so much for replying! Just looked at some example configs and it looks way slicker than nginx.
- mrweasel 5y ago
  There's an overlap in features between Nginx and HAProxy, but one isn't necessarily a replacement for the other. Nginx is a full webserver, HAProxy isn't a webserver.
ahmetkun 5y ago
> I know of Apache, but that seems to be falling out of favour lately. lately? more like for the last 10 years afaict.
j_autumn 5y ago
I like Caddy: https://caddyserver.com/ https://caddyserver.com/ Nice community and enough features for my (basic) use cases. The only thing that I don’t quite like is the logging format.
- exciteabletom 5y ago
  The automatic certificate renewal is a killer feature. Goodbye dodgy cronjobs!
mekster 5y ago
Just responded on alternatives on another post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440028 I'm starting to think Apache isn't bad once again after pulling several hairs out of nginx config complications over the last 10 years. If I just wanted to alias system path of '/some/path/' as 'https://domain/another_path/ https://domain/another_path/' in the URL, I don't know how to do that... Is it 'alias' or 'root' and should it have a slash at the end or not??? I usually just give up and symlink the directory on the system. Same with proxy_pass on ending slash that is confusing. And the priority of 'location' block is a nightmare until you Google enough to figure it out every time I configure nginx, not to mention the cryptic convention of ~ or ~^ and the likes and the fact you can't effectively nest location blocks.

jimmySixDOF 5y ago

HAProxy is one and I'd like to see a breakdown of how these config issues either spillover or are dealt with differently in that environment.

exciteabletom 5y ago
Thanks so much for replying! Just looked at some example configs and it looks way slicker than nginx.
mrweasel 5y ago
There's an overlap in features between Nginx and HAProxy, but one isn't necessarily a replacement for the other. Nginx is a full webserver, HAProxy isn't a webserver.

ahmetkun 5y ago

> I know of Apache, but that seems to be falling out of favour lately. lately? more like for the last 10 years afaict.

j_autumn 5y ago

I like Caddy: https://caddyserver.com/ https://caddyserver.com/ Nice community and enough features for my (basic) use cases. The only thing that I don’t quite like is the logging format.

exciteabletom 5y ago
The automatic certificate renewal is a killer feature. Goodbye dodgy cronjobs!

mekster 5y ago

Just responded on alternatives on another post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440028 I'm starting to think Apache isn't bad once again after pulling several hairs out of nginx config complications over the last 10 years. If I just wanted to alias system path of '/some/path/' as 'https://domain/another_path/ https://domain/another_path/' in the URL, I don't know how to do that... Is it 'alias' or 'root' and should it have a slash at the end or not??? I usually just give up and symlink the directory on the system. Same with proxy_pass on ending slash that is confusing. And the priority of 'location' block is a nightmare until you Google enough to figure it out every time I configure nginx, not to mention the cryptic convention of ~ or ~^ and the likes and the fact you can't effectively nest location blocks.