Third-Party Modules

Below are popular third-party nginx-compatible modules with brief descriptions. Package installation instructions are in the Third-Party Modules section.

Module	Description
Auth JWT	Adds JWT authentication for clients.
Auth LDAP	Adds support for LDAP authentication with multiple servers.
Auth PAM	Adds support for PAM authentication.
Auth SPNEGO	Adds support for SPNEGO and GSSAPI.
Auth TOTP	Adds TOTP-based one-time password authentication.
Brotli	Adds static and dynamic Brotli compression for responses.
Cache Purge	Allows purging content from FastCGI, proxy, SCGI, and uWSGI caches.
CGI	Adds support for CGI.
Combined Upstreams	Allows combining multiple server groups into one.
DAV Ext	Extends WebDAV support with PROPFIND and OPTIONS methods.
Dynamic Limit Req	Serves to dynamically block IP addresses and periodically unblock them.
Echo	Allows calling echo, sleep, time, exec and other shell commands in the configuration file.
Enhanced Memcached	Extends the capabilities of the built-in Memcached module.
Eval	Allows saving response bodies of subrequests into variables.
GeoIP2	Adds geolocation search in MaxMind GeoIP2 databases.
Headers More	Allows setting and clearing request and response headers.
HTTP Auth Radius	Adds support for Radius.
JWT	Lightweight alternative to Auth JWT.
Keyval	Allows using variables with values from key-value pairs.
Lua: http_lua_module, stream_lua_module	Allow using the Lua language in Angie configuration in the http and stream contexts, respectively.
ModSecurity	Adds a connector for using ModSecurity rules.
NJS: http_js, stream_js	Allow using njs, a subset of the JavaScript language, in Angie configuration in the http and stream contexts, respectively. Also available is a lightweight version of the package named ...-njs-light; however, it is incompatible with the regular version and cannot be used simultaneously with it.
NDK	Adds the Nginx Development Kit (NDK) for developing new modules.
OpenTracing	Adds distributed OpenTracing request tracing in Angie; contains plugins for exporting data to Zipkin and DataDog.
OpenTelemetry	Allows sending telemetry data to the OpenTelemetry collector.
PostgreSQL	Includes direct support for PostgreSQL databases.
Redis2	Includes support for Redis 2.0 for HTTP upstreams.
RTMP	Includes support for RTMP for streaming and video-on-demand broadcasts.
Set Misc	Adds various set_xxx directives to the Rewrite module.
Subs	Allows replacing strings in HTTP response bodies using regular expressions.
TestCookie	Helps combat bots using a "challenge-response" mechanism based on cookies.
UnBrotli	Unpacks responses with Content-Encoding: br for clients that do not support Brotli encoding.
Upload	Adds multipart/form-data (RFC 1867) encoding for file uploads from the client, including resume capability.
VOD	Allows repackaging MP4 files for streaming via HLS, HDS, MSS, and DASH.
VTS: module-vts, module-sts, module-stream-sts	Include the three listed modules for traffic monitoring.
ZIP	Includes dynamic ZIP archive packaging.
Zstd	Includes Zstandard compression.