Nginx 1.7.10 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.
On 2015-02-10, the mainline version of Nginx 1.7.10 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:
Changes with nginx 1.7.10 10 Feb 2015
- ) Feature: the “use_temp_path” parameter of the “proxy_cache_path”, “fastcgi_cache_path”, “scgi_cache_path”, and “uwsgi_cache_path” directives.
- ) Feature: the $upstream_header_time variable.
- ) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write error logs once a second only.
- ) Bugfix: the “try_files” directive did not ignore normal files while testing directories. Thanks to Damien Tournoud.
- ) Bugfix: alerts “sendfile() failed” if the “sendfile” directive was used on OS X; the bug had appeared in 1.7.8.
- ) Bugfix: alerts “sem_post() failed” might appear in logs.
- ) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with musl libc. Thanks to James Taylor.
- ) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Tru64 UNIX. Thanks to Goetz T. Fischer.
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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 1.7.10 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.
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The Nginx Bundle for Windows is an easy to set up and easy to use software package consisting of Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP for the Microsoft Windows platform.