# OpenResty

Bundle of the nginx core, third-party nginx modules and LuaJIT for building scriptable web applications.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/openresty/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://openresty.org/
- repository: https://github.com/openresty/openresty
- forum: https://forum.openresty.us/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: OpenResty Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2011
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: lua
- language: c
- runtime: lua
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: nginx

### 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: server
- installMethod: brew install openresty/brew/openresty, binary packages or source build

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-2-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 14100
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 38
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/openresty/openresty (read 2026-10-26)
- description: https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://openresty.org/en/ (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainerType: https://openresty.org/en/ (read 2026-10-26)
- basedOn: https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://openresty.org/en/ (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/openresty/openresty (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://openresty.org/en/ (read 2026-10-26)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- runsAs: https://openresty.org/en/getting-started.html (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://openresty.org/en/installation.html (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/openresty/openresty/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://openresty.org/en/changelog-1000004.html (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/openresty/openresty/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://openresty.org/en/download.html (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/openresty/openresty (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/openresty/openresty/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

OpenResty is a web platform that bundles the nginx core, a set of third-party nginx modules and their dependencies into one build, and adds LuaJIT so that request handling can be scripted in Lua. The bundle is written in C and maintained by OpenResty Inc. It runs as a long-lived nginx process that is started with its own configuration file.

Installation is through Homebrew, through binary packages for Linux distributions, or by building the source, as the [installation page](https://openresty.org/en/installation.html) describes. The [project homepage](https://openresty.org/) presents it as a web platform built on Nginx and LuaJIT.

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