One of the fastest web servers available on the web using multithreading to support hundreds of simultaneous connections at the same time.
Features:
- Server supports HTTP/1.0, FTP, CGI/1.1, SSI protocols, server-side image maps, user-defined MIME types, multiple document roots, persistent connections, on-the-fly server reconfiguration, customisable error messages, multilingual HTML documents and multilingual CGI scripts, HTTP GET, HEAD, PUT, DELETE, MOVE, and COPY methods, customisable HTTP headers
- Security: basic authentication per directory, FTP access rights per user and per directory, on-the-fly user and password management, Unix setuid, restrict access by IP address, safe CGIs, SSL option (Xitami/Pro)
- Logging: CLF, IIS, XML, and custom log file formats, programmed log file cycling, asynchronous reverse DNS lookups
- Virtual hosts: multihoming HTTP and FTP hosts, HTTP/1.1 virtual hosts, full independent configuration (log files, web spaces, access rights,...) per virtual host
- Configuration: editable config files, or through a web-based administration interface (WBA) that includes virtual host wizard, server control (restart, terminate), active connection monitor, and full configuration of server options, security, users, etc
- Applications: direct support for CGI scripts in Perl, Awk, Rexx, Python, WSX protocol for plug-in extensions, SSI protocol for dynamic web pages, ISAPI under Windows, filter protocol for arbitrary web page filters, LRWP protocol for persistent (fast CGI) applications in Perl, C, Python, Java, Java Servlets
- Deployment: installs ready-to-run, portable to Windows, OS/2, Unix, OpenVMS, fully portable web sites and web applications
- Performance: internal multithreading engine, fast even on slower systems, small footprint, option to restrict HTTP and FTP connections, FTP quota manager
