Writing Your First “Hello World” in NGINX Unit @nginx

Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Learn how to use the NGINX Unit configuration API to write your first "Hello World" program.

NGINX Unit is a universal web app server – intended as a building block for any web architecture regardless of its complexity, from enterprise-scale deployments to your pet's home page. It is equally suited to simplifying modern microservices environments as it is to modernizing legacy and monolithic applications.

We've developed a whole course covering all of the ins and outs of NGINX Unit, how to install it, exploring the configuration API, writing your first "Hello World", web-server configuration, intro into Unit languages modules and so much more.

Resources:
NGINX Unit
unit.nginx.org

What is NGINX Unit?
bit.ly/3wInuPM

Real World Use Cases and Success Stories Using NGINX Unit
youtu.be/0dPEuvX6mbY

What's New with NGINX Unit?
youtu.be/VRHcok0mf4U

Chapters:
0:00 - Using NGINX Configuration API to Write "Hello World" Program
0:37 - Looking at Current Configuration
2:33 - Create Unit JSON Configuration File
3:33 - Making "Hello World" Program Demo
7:18 - Routes on NGINX Unit
9:43 - Reconfiguration Successful Response
10:02 - Next Lecture: NGINX Unit as a Web Server

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