Introduction

Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has been proven very stable and efficient on the top 100 global websites, including taobao.com and tmall.com.

Tengine has been an open source project since December 2011. It is being actively developed by the Tengine team, whose core members are from Taobao, Sogou and other Internet companies. Tengine is a community effort and everyone is encouraged to get involved.

Features

• All features of Nginx-1.2.9 are inherited, i.e. it is 100% compatible with Nginx.
• Dynamic module loading support (DSO). You don't have to recompile Tengine when you want to add a new module.
• Input body filter support. It's quite handy to write Web Application Firewalls by using this mechanism.
• Logging enhancement. Syslog (local and remote), pipe logging and log sampling are supported.
• Dynamic scripting language (Lua) support, which is very efficient and easy to extend core functionalities.
• A mechanism to support standalone processes.
• Protecting server in case system load or memory use goes too high.
• Multiple CSS or JavaScript requests can be combined into one request to reduce downloading time.
• Proactive health checks of upstream servers can be performed.
• The number of worker processes and CPU affinities can be set automatically.
• The limit_req module is enhanced with white list support and more conditions are allowed in a single location.
• Diagnostic information to tell the server where the error happened.
• More user friendly command lines. e.g. showing all compiled-in modules and supported directives.
• Expiration times can be specified for certain MIME types.
• Error pages can be reset to 'default'.
• ...

News

• [05/14/2013] Tengine-1.4.6 development version released (changes).
• [05/01/2013] Tengine-1.4.5 development version released (changes).
• [03/21/2013] Tengine-1.4.4 development version released (changes).
• [01/21/2013] Tengine-1.4.3 development version released (changes).
• [11/22/2012] Tengine-1.4.2 development version released (changes).
• [10/10/2012] Tengine-1.4.1 development version released (changes).
• [09/05/2012] Tengine-1.4.0 development version released (changes).
• [07/10/2012] We started the Nginx Chinese Documentation Translation Project.
• [06/28/2012] Our Chinese translation of Nginx's documentation was accepted by the Nginx team.
• [06/09/2012] We presented Nginx Use Cases and Development at Taobao on ECOC.
• [05/25/2012] Tengine-1.3.0 stable version released (changes).
• [05/09/2012] Tengine-1.2.5 stable version released (changes).
• [03/30/2012] Tengine-1.2.4 stable version released (changes).
• [03/08/2012] We are writing an open book on Nginx development.
• [02/27/2012] Tengine-1.2.3 stable version released (changes).
• [01/11/2012] Tengine-1.2.2 stable version released (changes).
• [12/07/2011] We gave a talk on Hacking Nginx on Velocity China 2011.
• [12/06/2011] Tengine-1.2.1 stable version released (changes).
• [12/02/2011] Tengine goes to open source.