# nghttpx

Reverse proxy for HTTP/3, HTTP/2 and HTTP/1 that ships in the nghttp2 project.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nghttpx/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://nghttp2.org
- repository: https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2
- docs: https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpx.1.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2013
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: binary
- language: cpp
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: build from source

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-07-29

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5074
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 144
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpx.1.html (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://nghttp2.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2 (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpx.1.html (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/COPYING (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainerType: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/COPYING (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpx.1.html (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2 (read 2026-10-30)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-30)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/README.rst (read 2026-10-30)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2 (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/master/COPYING (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2 (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/nghttp2/nghttp2/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

nghttpx is a reverse proxy for HTTP/3, HTTP/2 and HTTP/1 that ships in the nghttp2 project alongside the nghttp2 library. The [man page](https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpx.1.html) describes its options, and the repository's README explains how to build the application programs from source or from a release tar archive.

## Worth knowing

nghttpx is a long-running server program, so the host has to keep a process running for it. The README advises jemalloc for long-running server programs to limit heap fragmentation.

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