Nginx 1.5.5 for Windows

Nginx 1.5.5 for Windows

Nginx 1.5.5 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit builds) are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream development 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.

On 2013-09-17, the development version of Nginx 1.5.5 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.5.5 17 Sep 2013

  • ) Change: now nginx assumes HTTP/1.0 by default if it is not able to detect protocol reliably.
  • ) Feature: the “disable_symlinks” directive now uses O_PATH on Linux.
  • ) Feature: now nginx uses EPOLLRDHUP events to detect premature connection close by clients if the “epoll” method is used.
  • ) Bugfix: in the “valid_referers” directive if the “server_names” parameter was used.
  • ) Bugfix: the $request_time variable did not work in nginx/Windows.
  • ) Bugfix: in the “image_filter” directive. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
  • ) Bugfix: OpenSSL 1.0.1f compatibility. Thanks to Piotr Sikora.


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 1.5.5 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.

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