Web Servers

Self-hosted web servers and reverse proxies

Web Servers and Reverse Proxies. A web server is a piece of software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A Reverse Proxy is a proxy server that appears to any client to be an ordinary web server, but in reality merely acts as an intermediary that forwards requests to one or more ordinary web servers.

Related: Proxy

Applications

Algernon

Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support.

• Website: https://algernon.roboticoverlords.org/
• Source Code: https://github.com/xyproto/algernon
• License: BSD-3-Clause
• Platform: Go/Docker

Apache HTTP Server

Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

• Website: https://httpd.apache.org/
• Source Code: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/
• License: Apache-2.0
• Platform: C/deb/Docker

BunkerWeb

Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services.

• Website: https://www.bunkerweb.io
• Demo: https://demo.bunkerweb.io
• Source Code: https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: deb/Docker/K8S/Python

Caddy

Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS.

• Website: https://caddyserver.com/
• Source Code: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
• License: Apache-2.0
• Platform: Go/deb/Docker

godoxy

High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator for self-hosters.

• Website: https://docs.godoxy.dev/
• Demo: https://demo.godoxy.dev/
• Source Code: https://github.com/yusing/godoxy
• License: MIT
• Platform: Docker/Go

HAProxy

Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

• Website: https://www.haproxy.org/
• Source Code: https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;a=tree
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: C/deb/Docker

Jauth

Lightweight SSL/TLS reverse proxy with authorization (via Telegram and SSH) for self-hosted apps.

• Source Code: https://github.com/Jipok/Jauth
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: Go
• Note: ⚠ Depends on a proprietary service outside the user’s control

Lighttpd

Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments.

• Website: https://www.lighttpd.net/
• Source Code: https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4
• License: BSD-3-Clause
• Platform: C/deb/Docker

Nginx Proxy Manager

Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface.

• Website: https://nginxproxymanager.com/
• Source Code: https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
• License: MIT
• Platform: Docker

NGINX

HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server.

• Website: https://nginx.org/en/
• Source Code: https://github.com/nginx/nginx
• License: BSD-2-Clause
• Platform: C/deb/Docker

Pangolin

Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).

• Website: https://digpangolin.com/
• Source Code: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: Docker

Pomerium

Identity-aware reverse proxy, successor to now obsolete oauth_proxy. It inserts an OAuth step before proxying your request to the backend, so that you can safely expose your self-hosted websites to public Internet.

• Website: https://www.pomerium.io
• Source Code: https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium
• License: Apache-2.0
• Platform: Go/Docker

SafeLine

Web application firewall / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

• Website: https://waf.chaitin.com/
• Demo: https://demo.waf.chaitin.com/
• Source Code: https://github.com/chaitin/SafeLine
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: Docker

Static Web Server

Cross-platform, high-performance, and asynchronous web server for static file serving.

• Website: https://static-web-server.net/
• Source Code: https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server
• License: Apache-2.0/MIT
• Platform: Rust/Docker

SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway)

Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with PHP support, built-in Certbot (Let’s Encrypt) client and fail2ban integration.

• Source Code: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: Docker

Traefik

HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.

• Website: https://traefik.io/
• Source Code: https://github.com/traefik/traefik
• License: MIT
• Platform: Go/Docker

UUSEC WAF

Industry-leading high-performance, AI and semantic technology web application firewall and API security gateway (fork of nginx).

• Website: https://uuwaf.uusec.com
• Source Code: https://github.com/Safe3/uusec-waf
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: C/Lua/Docker

Vinyl Cache

Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy (formerly Varnish).

• Website: https://vinyl-cache.org/
• Source Code: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache
• License: BSD-2-Clause
• Platform: Go/deb/Docker

Zoraxy

General purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool.

• Website: https://zoraxy.aroz.org/
• Source Code: https://github.com/tobychui/zoraxy
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: Go/Docker