Ferron

Ferron is a web server written in Rust that serves static files, reverse-proxies requests to other servers and obtains TLS certificates for public hosts automatically. It installs with an installer script on Linux and Windows, from Debian and RPM packages, from a Docker image or a ZIP archive, or builds from source with Cargo. The packages run it as a system service. The source is released under the MIT license and maintained in a GitHub organization named Ferron.

The project publishes guides for moving a setup from NGINX or from Apache .htaccess.

Worth knowing

A newer major line is in release candidates, and the documentation site labels it as such by default. The stable line’s guides are published under their own path, so a reader should check which line a page describes.