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Nginx UI is a comprehensive web-based interface for managing and configuring Nginx on single nodes and clusters. It provides real-time server statistics, Nginx performance monitoring, AI-powered ChatGPT assistance, an editor with LLM code completion, one-click deployment, automatic Let's Encrypt certificate renewal, and user-friendly tools for editing website configurations. Additional capabilities include online Nginx log access, automatic config test-and-reload, a web terminal, dark mode, and responsive design. Built with Go and Vue; distributed as a single executable binary.

Just want to try it? See the Quickstart on the official site.

Nginx UI dashboard (English)

Our Team ​

Role
0xJacky 0xJackyCreator
Hintay HintayDeveloper
Akino AkinoDeveloper
Cursor CursorDeveloper

Features ​

  • Online statistics for server indicators: CPU usage, memory usage, load average, and disk usage.
  • Configurations are automatically backed up after modifications; compare or restore any previous version.
  • Mirror operations to multiple cluster nodes for multi-server environments.
  • Export encrypted Nginx / Nginx UI configurations for quick deployment and recovery.
  • Enhanced online ChatGPT assistant with multiple models, including Deepseek-R1 chain-of-thought display for understanding and optimizing configs.
  • One-click deployment and automatic renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates.
  • Online editing of website configs via NgxConfigEditor (block editor) or Ace Code Editor (LLM completion + Nginx syntax highlighting).
  • Online view of Nginx logs.
  • Written in Go and Vue; distribution is a single executable binary.
  • Automatically test the configuration file and reload Nginx after saving.
  • Web terminal.
  • Dark mode.
  • Responsive web design.

Available Platforms ​

  • macOS 11 Big Sur and later (amd64 / arm64)
  • Linux 2.6.23 and later (x86 / amd64 / arm64 / armv5 / armv6 / armv7)
    • Including but not limited to Debian 7 / 8, Ubuntu 12.04 / 14.04 and later, CentOS 6 / 7, Arch Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • Dragonfly BSD
  • OpenWrt

Internationalization ​

Official support for:

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese

Community translations are available via Weblate (see project docs for the Nginx UI Weblate project link).

Key Takeaways ​

  • Nginx UI is a Go + Vue single-binary web UI for Nginx single-node and cluster management.
  • Strong ops focus: live stats, config versioning/backup, cluster mirroring, encrypted config export, auto LE certs, and test-then-reload.
  • Editor choices: NgxConfigEditor (blocks) or Ace with LLM completion; plus ChatGPT assistant and web terminal.
  • Runs on macOS, Linux (broad arch), BSDs, and OpenWrt; official locales EN / zh-CN / zh-TW with community i18n on Weblate.

Curated technical notes — open source on GitHub