Although Nginx is a relatively new and growing project, there are already a good number of resources available on the World Wide Web (WWW) and an active community of administrators and developers.

The official website, which is at http://nginx.org/, currently serves as an official documentation reference, and provides links from which to download the latest version of the application source code and binaries. A wiki is also available at https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/ and offers a wide selection of additional resources such as installation guides for various operating systems, tutorials related to the different modules of Nginx, and more.

There are several ways to get help if you should need it. If you have a specific question, try posting on the Nginx forum—https://forum.nginx.org/. An active community of users will answer your questions in no time. Additionally, the Nginx mailing list, which is relayed on the Nginx forum, will also prove to be an excellent resource for any question you may have. And if you need direct assistance, there is always a group of regulars helping each other out on the IRC channel #Nginx on irc.freenode.net.

Another interesting source of information is the blogosphere. A simple query on your favorite search engine should return a good number of blog articles documenting Nginx, its configuration, and modules:

It's now time to head over to the official website and get started with downloading the source code for compiling and installing Nginx. Before you do so, let us have a quick summary of the available versions and the features that come with them.