Universal Web App Server

NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile open-source server that has
two primary capabilities:

• serves static media assets,
• runs application code in seven languages.

Unit compresses several layers of the modern application stack into a potent,
coherent solution with a focus on performance, low latency, and scalability. It
is intended as a universal building block for any web architecture regardless
of its complexity, from enterprise-scale deployments to your pet’s homepage.

Its native RESTful JSON API enables dynamic
updates with zero interruptions and flexible configuration, while its
out-of-the-box productivity reliably scales to production-grade workloads. We
achieve that with a complex, asynchronous, multithreading architecture
comprising multiple processes to ensure security and robustness while getting
the most out of today’s computing platforms.

Quick Installation

macOS

$ brew install nginx/unit/unit

For details and available language packages, see the
docs.

Docker

For a description of image tags, see the
docs.

Amazon Linux, Fedora, RedHat

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nginx/unit/master/tools/setup-unit && chmod +x setup-unit
# ./setup-unit repo-config && yum install unit
# ./setup-unit welcome

For details and available language packages, see the
docs.

Debian, Ubuntu

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nginx/unit/master/tools/setup-unit && chmod +x setup-unit
# ./setup-unit repo-config && apt install unit
# ./setup-unit welcome

For details and available language packages, see the
docs.

Running a Hello World App

Unit runs apps in a
variety of languages.
Let’s consider a basic example,
choosing PHP for no particular reason.

Suppose you saved a PHP script as /www/helloworld/index.php:

 echo "Hello, PHP