alexazhou/VeryNginx

Health v2 · maintenance only

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5979 stars · 940 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

VeryNginx is an enhanced Nginx distribution built on lua-nginx-module (OpenResty) that adds a web application firewall, request routing, rate limiting, and a web-based control panel with dashboards. It lets administrators define matcher/action rules for filtering, redirecting, and proxying traffic through a friendly web interface.

Use cases

• protect my web server from sql injection and scanners with a waf
• rate limit requests per ip on nginx
• manage nginx routing rules through a web control panel
• block bot traffic to my site
• monitor nginx request rate and traffic with dashboards
• rewrite urls and redirect requests based on rules

When to choose

• you want a WAF and traffic control built into nginx with a GUI
• you need rule-based request filtering, rewriting, and rate limiting without writing lua yourself
• you want built-in nginx status dashboards

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained software with recent releases
• you use vanilla nginx and cannot switch to OpenResty
• you need a cloud-native or container-orchestrated WAF solution

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

security rate-limiting proxy monitoring middleware http-server security web-development monitoring self-hosted self-hosted waf nginx openresty lua control-panel reverse-proxy access-control linux web-server

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