The NGINX Community

NGINX is not only supported by a vibrant community, but also has a company

to back it now, too. Igor Sysoev, the original author of NGINX, co-founded
NGINX, Inc. in 2011 to offer professional support to companies using NGINX.

He and the other NGINX developers are still available to the community, though.
This appendix provides a brief overview of community resources available online.

Topics covered in this appendix include the following:

• Mailing list


• IRC channel


• Web resources


• Writing a proper bug report

Mailing list

The mailing list at [email protected] has been active since 2005. Subscribing to the

list and seeing what kind of questions are asked and how they are answered is the
best way to get an idea of how to get help from the list. Before asking a question,

search online for an answer first. There is also an FAQ at http://wiki.nginx.org/
Faq. See if someone has already asked the question recently by searching the archives

at http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/. It's not only embarrassing

for you if the same question has been asked recently, but it's also annoying to the
readers of the list.