Projects

Apache HTTP Server

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, feature-rich, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using ... [More] the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. [Less]

NGINX

NGINX [Engine-X] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running on many heavily loaded sites, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox, Tumblr and WordPress.

lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load ... [More] , and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. [Less]

Cherokee

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, uWSGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base ... [More] Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming, Content Cache and much more. Cherokee-Admin, a user friendly interface, provides a no-hassle configuration of the server. Check out the benchmarks and documentation to learn more, join our active Community and give it a try to squeeze your hardware to the fullest! [Less]

Roxen

A webserver with exceptional support to run native applications in RXML. The webserver is implemented in Pike.

tclhttpd

TclHttpd is a Web server implemented in pure Tcl. It works out of the box as a Web server, but is really designed to be a Tcl application server. It supports HTML+Tcl templates, and is extensible in a variety of ways.

Caudium

Caudium is the name of a GPL-ed (free for commercial and personal use) web server written in Pike and in C. It is originally based on the Roxen Challenger 1.3 code base. It is an attractive alternative to servers like Apache, Netscape® and Zeus® due to its strength in dynamic page and data ... [More] generation, modularity and more. The Caudium Project runs also an IRC network, has created a GPL webmail called CAMAS and has an ever-growing community of developers and users worldwide. [Less]

Nanoweb - The HTTP Server written in PHP

Nanoweb is an HTTP server written in PHP, designed to be small, secure, and extensible. Nanoweb's main features are : - HTTP/1.1 compliance - Powerful and easy configuration - Modular architecture - FastCGI, CGI and Server side includes support - Name and port based virtual hosts - ... [More] Access control lists - htpasswd, MySQL, PostgreSQL and LDAP authentication support - Themes for server generated content - Apache compatible log format, MySQL logging - Directory browsing - inetd support and SSL via external helpers - Denial of Service protection - Proxy Server extension - Filters and gzip support - RBL support (mail-abuse.org) - Extension Protocols (request methods) support - ... and a lot more [Less]

MiniWebServer (Java)

NIO HTTP/1.1 Web Server with support for multi-part forms, custom servlets, cookies, sessions, SSL, gzip and deflate encodings, pipelining, and more! Written in 100% Java with core server reliance only on the base jdk library.

POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP

This module makes serving up HTTP requests a breeze in POE.