Nginx 1.11.5 for Windows

By Kevin Worthington Published: 11 October 2016

Nginx 1.11.5 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit builds) are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream mainline branch. Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a high performance web server, caching proxy and a Layer 7 load balancing solution. Millions of web sites on the Internet use and benefit from Nginx because of its extreme performance, scalability, reliability, flexibility, and security.

Note: these builds are built with older versions of OpenSSL and therefore SSL/TLS is NOT recommended for use. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Using http only is recommended.

On 2016-10-11, the mainline version of Nginx 1.11.5 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.11.5 — 11 Oct 2016

) Change: the –with-ipv6 configure option was removed, now IPv6 support is configured automatically.

) Change: now if there are no available servers in an upstream, nginx will not reset number of failures of all servers as it previously did, but will wait for fail_timeout to expire.

) Feature: the ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module.

) Feature: the “server” directive in the “upstream” context supports the “max_conns” parameter.

) Feature: the –with-compat configure option.

) Feature: “manager_files”, “manager_threshold”, and “manager_sleep” parameters of the “proxy_cache_path”, “fastcgi_cache_path”, “scgi_cache_path”, and “uwsgi_cache_path” directives.

) Bugfix: flags passed by the –with-ld-opt configure option were not used while building perl module.

) Bugfix: in the “add_after_body” directive when used with the “sub_filter” directive.

) Bugfix: in the $realip_remote_addr variable.

) Bugfix: the “dav_access”, “proxy_store_access”, “fastcgi_store_access”, “scgi_store_access”, and “uwsgi_store_access” directives ignored permissions specified for user.

) Bugfix: unix domain listen sockets might not be inherited during binary upgrade on Linux.

) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests with the “-” character in the HTTP method.

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Maxim Dounin

These Windows install files are provided to support legacy users who still use the Cygwin based builds. Before nginx.org starting providing native Windows packages, these were the only way to run Nginx on Windows. Now, official native Windows builds are available and supported at nginx.org. Please use those if you are new to Nginx on Windows. Once again, they are fully supported and available for download at nginx.org.

Download Nginx 1.11.3 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.

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