# alexazhou/VeryNginx

A very powerful and friendly  nginx base on lua-nginx-module( openresty ) which provide WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards.

Repository: https://github.com/alexazhou/VeryNginx
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/verynginx
Language: Lua
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2020-06-30T07:07:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3898, "days_push": 2255, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5979, forks 940 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:33.954777+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, rate-limiting, proxy, monitoring, middleware, http-server
- domain: security, web-development, monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: waf, nginx, openresty, lua, control-panel, reverse-proxy, access-control, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- alexazhou/VeryNginx (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.954777+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:50:02.453361+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alexazhou/VeryNginx (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.954777+00:00, sha a7cd602ea91a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.