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See Also

Going Faster: Testing The Web Application ( Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee ; IEEE Software Magazine 2002-03)

Server-Side Design Principles for Scalable Internet Systems ( Colleen Roe, Sergio Gonik ; IEEE Software Magazine 2002-03)

Understanding and Reducing Web Delays ( MazenZari, HosseinSaiedian, MuhammadNaeem ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2001-12)

The Evolution of Web-Caching Markets ( Chris Kenyon ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2001-11)

Identifying Web Browsing Trends and Patterns ( Alan L. Montgomery, Christos Faloutsos ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2001-07)

NCSA's World Wide Web Server: Design and Performance ( Thomas T. Kwan, Robert E. McGrath, Daniel A. Reed ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1995-11)

Obtaining Access Logs for User Web Sites? [2002/05/06]

Statistical Analyzers for HTTP Logs? [2002/04/23]

Isolated Apache Virtual Hosts? [2002/03/27]

Planning a Small Server Room [2002/03/14]

Webaccelerator with mod_gzip ? [2002/03/09]

Web Hosting - Roll Your Own vs Hosting Company? [2002/02/26]

Non-Profit Colocation? [2002/02/03]

Longest-Serving Web Server? [2001/12/25]

Session Management and Mega-Proxies? [2001/12/22]

Writing Software to Collect Click Stream Stats? [2001/12/05]

Web Log Analyzers? [2001/10/22]

Tools for Stress Testing Websites? [2001/10/10]

IIS Security - Using a Linux Box as a Sentry? [2001/09/29]

Switching Painlessly from IIS to Apache? [2001/09/25]

Efficient HTML Organization and Distribution on Webservers? [2001/09/12]

Multi-User Websites and Lack of Security? [2001/06/18]

Webhosting Control Panels? [2001/04/20]

Filtered I/O in Apache? [ 2000/11/06]

Low-Cost High-Volume Web Hosting? [ 2000/10/19]

Web-Based Proxies As Internet Gateways? [ 2000/10/18]

On the Commercial Use Of Apache and SSL [ 2000/10/11]

Apache vs IIS in Performance? [ 2000/10/05]

Gzip Encoding of Web Pages? [ 2000/09/21]

Migrating From MS/IIS to Linux/Apache? [ 2000/09/04]

Supporting Tens Of Thousands Of Users With Apache? [ 2000/08/20]

Managed Co-location For Debian Boxen? [ 2000/08/08]

On Building High Volume Dynamic Web Sites [ 2000/03/08]

Adding System Level Accounts from chroot-ed Apache? [ 2000/02/29]

Handling 1,000,000 Hits a Day? [ 2000/02/02]

Security for "Free Home Page" Linux Web Service [ 2000/01/22]

Mod Perl or Servlets? [ 1999/12/28]

On Maintaining httpd Logs... [ 1999/11/25]

Perl Domination in CGI Programming? [ 1999/11/02]

Implementing a Load-Balanced Webserver? [ 1999/10/13]

Low Powered, Cheap, *Small* Webservers? [ 1999/09/26]

Optimizing Apache/MySQL for a Production Environment [ 1999/08/29]

Serving Graphics to Website from a Database? [ 1999/08/28]

How does Zope Rate Compared to IIOS and NAS? [ 1999/07/31]

What Database is the best for a Web Site/Small Business? [ 1999/01/29]

How can you Make htdig Search Sites w/ International Characters? [ 1998/12/30]

Linux and Online Shopping [ 1998/11/12]

Apache's Ability to Scale [ 1998/09/28]

Questions and Answers

httpd(8) - Apache hypertext transfer protocol server {oss}

mod_auth_samba - mod_auth_samba is Apache authentication module, which allows you to use username/passwords from your Windows NT workgroups in your UNIX based Apache web servers. {oss}

Caudium - Caudium is a single process multi-threaded webserver. It has a built-in pre-processing language and an early stage of XSLT-support. The server also comes with a fast log parser. Configuration is easily done using a WWW-GUI. {(L)GPL}

mod_access_referer Apache module - This is an module for the Apache HTTP Server that provides access control based on "Referer" HTTP header content.

AllegroServe - AllegroServe (formerly Allegro iServe) is a webserver developed for use with Allegro Common Lisp. Supporting the HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1 protocols, it can serve dynamic pages using an HTML generator facility. {(L)GPL}

FreeThreads - A continuation of the last GPL'd version of WWWThreads (wwwthreads.org) which is a bunch of CGI Perl scripts that provide access to message boards or forums via a web browser. {(L)GPL}

Ultra Monkey - Complete open source server farm solution for Linux. {(L)GPL}

courier-0.37.3 - Courier SMTP IMAP POP3 HTTP mail server suite

dansguardian-2.4.2.1 - A fast, simple web content filter for Squid proxy servers

dansguardian-2.2.9.1 - A fast, simple web content filter for Squid proxy servers

mod_log_mysql-1.14 - Allows Apache to log to a MySQL database

http_ping-20010709 - Sends HTTP requests every few seconds and times how long they take

httplog-2.1 - Apache log rollover program with strftime(3) filename support

ja-webalizer-2.1.10_1 - A web server log file analysis program

p5-Apache-Session-SharedMem-0.31_1 - Apache::Session extension that store session in shared memory

mgstat-0.4.1 - Produce graphs from mod_gzip log files

p5-Apache-SSI-2.16 - Apache::SSI - Implement Server Side Includes in Perl

siege-2.09 - A http regression testing and benchmarking utility

orion-1.5.2_20 - Orion Application Server

ru-apache-1.3.23.30.11 - The extremely popular Apache http server. Very fast, very clean

apache+ssl-1.3.12.1.40 - Apache-SSL: Apache secure webserver integrating OpenSSL

apache-jserv-1.1.2 - Loadable servlet module for apache

jdresolve-0.6.1 - A IP addresse to hostname program for httpd log files

http_load-20010405 - Multiprocessing http performance test client

httperf-0.6 - A tool for measuring webserver performance

jetty-3.1.4 - Extensible Java HTTP Server

micro_httpd-2000.12.15 - An extremely small web server

mod_csacek-2.1.9 - Charset recoding module for Apache

mod_dtcl-0.11.5 - Embeds a TCL8 interpreter in the Apache server

mod_python-2.7.6 - Apache module for integrating Python

mod_ruby-0.9.8 - An Apache module that embeds Ruby interpreter within

mod_throttle-3.1.2 - An Apache module that provides bandwidth & request throttling

oops-1.5.22.20020312 - A caching web proxy server

p5-Apache-ASP-2.17 - Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl

p5-CGI-Cache-1.20 - Perl extension to cache output of time-intensive CGI scripts

polygraph-2.2.7 - A benchmarking tool for Web proxies

ru-apache+mod_ssl-1.3.22+30.9+2.8.5 - The Russian Apache webserver with SSL/TLS functionality

webalizer-2.1.10_1 - A web server log file analysis program

squidGuard-1.2.0 - A fast redirector for squid

squidtimes-1.12 - Generates a report of average transfer times of Squid cache

sslproxy-20000129 - Proxies non-SSL request over an SSL connection

tclhttpd-3.3_1 - An http-server implemented in TCL

webfs-1.16 - A simple http server for static content

webredirect-0.2 - Small web server serving "301 Moved Permanently" only

webstone-ssl-2.5 - World wide web server benchmarking with SSL support

squirm-1.23 - A fast & configurable redirector for the Squid

html2wml-0.4.6.p5 - A CGI that can do on-the-fly HTML to WML conversion

npc-0.83 - An animated web counter

bacon-1.071999 - Quick, easy-to-read, web statistics program

p5-Apache-AddHostPath-0.02 - Perl interface for transforming a requested URI based on host/port

fcgi-devkit-2.2.2 - FastCGI Development Kit

eddie-1.5.1 - Tool for building fault-tolerant redundant WWW servers

publicfile-0.52 - A secure, read-only, anonymous HTTP/FTP server

roxen-2.1.231 - The Roxen WebServer 2.1

jesred-1.2.1 - A redirector for Squid

mathopd-1.3p7 - A very small, yet very fast HTTP server

mod_access_referer-1.0.2 - An Apache module that provides access control based on Referer HTTP header

ruby-webunit-20020410 - A Ruby API for automated unit testing of web sites

p5-AxKit-XSP-Param-1.4 - A namespace wrapper for accessing HTTP request paramaters

p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.11 - Speed up perl CGI scripts by running them persistently

p5-CGI-XMLApplication-1.0.2 - Object Oriented Interface for CGI Script Applications

squidclients-1.6 - Generate a summary of client usage from a Squid log

neowebscript-3.3_1 - Embeds a TCL8 interpreter in the Apache server

p5-Apache-Session-1.54_1 - A persistence framework for session data

p5-POE-Component-Client-HTTP-0.41 - POE component for non-blocking/concurrent HTTP queries

ruby-webrick-1.1.5 - An HTTP server toolkit for Ruby

sqmgrlog-3.0.1 - Squid log analyzer and HTML report generator

squidpurge-1.17 - Powerful object purging utility for the Squid web proxy cache

subweb-1.0 - SubWeb is a (reverse) proxy to inspect HTTP flows on the fly

waccess-1.1 - Quick-N-Dirty Web Access Log Analyzer

neotcl-8.2.2_1 - The NeoTCL part of NeoWebScript -- an Apache TCL mod

p5-Apache-DBI-0.88 - DBI persistent connection, authentication and authorization

reportmagic-2.13 - A web site statistics post-processor for Analog

cronolog-1.6.2 - A web log rotation utility that provides datestamp filenames

gn-2.24 - Gopher and http server

marc-search-4.3 - web interface for searching MHonArc mail archives

mod_perl-1.26 - Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server

ruboard-1.2.1 - a web based discussion board

swish-e-1.3.2 - Simple web indexing for humans - enhanced

w3c-httpd-3.0A - WWW server from the W3 Consortium (W3C).

web500gw-2.1b3 - HTTP gateway to LDAP-based directories

webstone-2.5 - World wide web server benchmarking

wn-1.18.6 - A great http server

wwwcount-2.5 - Access counter, clock and date for WWW pages

wwwstat-2.01 - webserver logfile analysis package

homehttpd - a very small and very simple http server {oss}

GNUJSP - A free Java Server Pages implementation {GPL}

Zope - Web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites. {OpenSource}

BigBrother WebStats - Counter for websites that produces some statistics based on the info gathered {GPL}

AtDot - Web based e-mail system {GPL}

VaS - Vote and Survey scripts {GPL}

fhttpd - FTP/HTTP server with modules support {GPL}

WebSubmit - A web-based utility providing secure access to remote applications {PD}

Webalizer - Web server log analysis program {GPL}

Boa - Lightweight and High Performance WebServer {GPL}

Xitami - A fast, portable, and best of all free multi-threaded web server {OpenSource}

Calamaris - Statistic tool for Squid, NetCache and relatives {GPL}

Squij - Squid logfile analyzer {GPL}

mod_frontpage - FrontPage server extensions patch {GPL}

WN - A simple, robust Webserver whose design emphasizes security {GPL}

dhttpd - Minimal secure webserver. Fast and efficient, no cgi-bin support. {GPL}

wnmysqlauth - mySQL authentication module for the WN web server {GPL}

Loki - A webserver written in Java specializing in multiplayer games {GPL}

edna - tiny HTTP server for selecting and streaming MP3 files {GPL}

mod_cgisock - A CGI interface over a Unix Domain socket {OpenSource}

DBIx::CGI - Easy to Use DBI Interface for CGI Scripts {GPL}

SMB2WWW - Windows Network client that is accessible through a web browser {GPL}

multisort - small, fast C program that merges httpd logs and orders by date {GPL}

WebMail - Web frontend for Unix system mailboxes {GPL}

Soupermail - Generic form to email handler {GPL}

acmemail - acmemail is a single-user POP3 to Web gateway with full MIME support {GPL}

Pollera - A www poll system meant to be run via CGI. {GPL}

Web Pages - CGI script to merge several distributed webpages into one {GPL}

Web News - CGI Script that takes random announcements from a list {GPL}

WebGrams - Web-based greeting card application {GPL}

WWWThreads - WWW based discussion forums {GPL}

Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Upgrade (5-cal Add On)

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (5-client)

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (25-client)

AlertSite e-Service Starter Kit

Metamend e-Service Starter Kit

Intra.Net Information Management System e-Service Starter Kit

VelociGen for Tcl - High performance web server programming using Tcl {free for non-commercial use}

Zoom Server 3.5 Merchant Edition

Zoom Server 3.5 Merchant Edition Maintenance

Zoom Server 3.5 Professional Edition

EA Server 3.6.1 1-user Development

Stronghold 3 Secure Web Server

OWSKiller - Replacement for Oracle Web Server based on Java Servlets {freely distributable}

Summary (Pro) - Web server log analyzer tool {Shareware}

VeloMeter - Java based http load tester and performance measurement tool. {BSL}

Coconut Fetchmail (Web Mail) - Fully featured web based email service

CGIWrap - Wrapper for securely allowing all users to use CGI scripts {freely distributable}

Djvu Plugin for Netscape - Netscape plugin to decompress and view Djvu images. {x,free to use but restricted}

Apache - High performance, UNIX based HTTP server {BSL}

mod_fastcgi - FastCGI support for the Apache web server. {freely distributable}

mod_dav - DAV protocol extensions for Apache {BSL}

analog - WWW logfile analysis program {free to use but restricted}

http-analyze - Log analyzer for web servers {free for non-commercial use}

phttpd - A multithreaded HTTP server

AOLserver - America Online's own web application development platform {Freeware}

thttpd - A simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server. {BSL}

mod_perl - Brings together the full power of Perl and the Apache HTTP server {freely distributable}

mod_ssl - Apache Interface to SSLeay {BSL}

Pi3Web - HTTP server and development environment {freely distributable}

Jigsaw - W3C's leading-edge Web server platform {BSL}

mod_hosts_access - causes Apache to respect the rules in hosts.allow and hosts.deny {BSL}

mod_roaming - With mod_roaming you can use Apache as a Netscape Roaming Access server {BSL}

WebMacro Framework - Java server-side web template engine and servletdevelopment framework

4DOM - A CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C's Document Object Model in Python

cvsweb - A visual (www) interface to explore a CVS repository {BSL}

WebPlus - Web database application development tool and middleware {Shareware}

auth_ipc_module - Shadow password authentication module for Apache {free to use but restricted}

MailStudio 2000 - Free web based e-mail server solution {Free Trial}

MUMail - A Java applet designed to let you read your mail from a website {freely distributable}

Mail Man - A web-based application which allows the user to send and receive mails {free for non-commercial use}

QuickPlace Extranet Server Global Retail 2.0

Zoom Server 3.5 Soho Edition

Zoom Server 3.5 Enterprise Edition

mod_dtcl - Apache server-parsed Tcl module, inspired by PHP {GPL}

Comanche - Multiplatform configuration manager for the Apache web server [X] {GPL}

ocsemail - Electronic web email system for you intranet {GPL}

Thumb - Configurable image directory thumbnail viewer {GPL}

Apache::Session - Session manager for web applications {Artistic}

Applications and Utilities

httpunit - a Java library for the automatic stimulation and testing of web applications {BSD-like}

p5-Apache-DBILogConfig-0.01 - Perl module that logs access information in a DBI database

mod_bf-0.1 - A brainf*ck module for Apache

mod_tsunami-1.1 - Apache module which dynamically limits a site's slot usage

mod_put-1.3 - An Apache module that provides PUT and DELETE methods

p5-CGI.pm-2.753 - CGI.pm - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class

p5-File-CounterFile-0.12 - Perl module for persistent counter class

cgi-lib-1.4 - ANSI C Library for CGI Programming

mod_ticket-1.0 - Apache module for a digitally signed ticket in URL

mod_extract_forwarded-1.2 - An Apache module that can make proxied requests appear with client IP

mod_proxy_add_forward-20010201 - Apache module that adds a client IP header to outgoing proxy requests

p5-Apache-AuthenURL-0.8 - Apache/mod_perl module to handle auth against external URLs

p5-Apache-AutoIndex-0.08 - A perl module that can completely replace mod_dir and mod_autoindex

p5-Apache-Radius-0.3 - A perl5 module for providing RADIUS authentication in Apache+mod_perl

p5-FastCGI-0.58 - Modules for perl5, for enabling FastCGI support in CGI scripts

mod_snake-0.5.0 - A library to easily create flexible Apache modules

p5-Apache-Admin-Config-0.15 - A perl module to manipulate Apache configuration files

p5-Apache-DBILogger-0.93 - A module that tracks what's being transferred in a DBI database

p5-AxKit-XSP-Cookie-1.41 - An XSP library for setting and getting HTTP cookies

p5-Apache-Reload-0.07 - Reload changed modules

mod_mylo-0.2.1 - An Apache module to make Apache log to MySQL

mod_mysqluserdir-0.1 - An Apache module to make Apache get userdirs from MySQL

p5-HTTPD-Log-Filter-1.07 - Perl module to filter entries out of an httpd log

mod_sed-0.1 - An apache module that embeds a copy of the sed(1) command

mod_sqlinclude-1.2 - An Apache module implementing config inclusion from MySQL databases

cgihtml-1.69_1 - Library that simplifies the task of writing CGI programs in C

cgiparse-0.9b - C library to parse CGI Forms

Apache - The Apache Web server is freely available, fast, and easy to install. With this module, you can natively execute Perl scripts. Every Web server can execute Perl scripts, of course -- but it requires starting up a fresh Perl interpreter every time [Perl] {oss}

p5-WWW-Search-2.26 - A perl5 module for WWW searches

p5-CGI-modules-2.76 - Modules for perl5, for use in writing CGI scripts

p5-HTTPD-Tools-0.55 - Perl5 module for a HTTP server authentication class

libwww - General-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32) {OpenSource}

FCGI - Fast CGI, based on the FCGI module that comes with Open Market's FastCGI Developer's Kit. Similar to the CGI module. See www.fastcgi.com for details. Requires SFIO and Perl version 5.003_02 or later. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Imagemap - Lets you create "clickable images" on your web pages. You can define actions for rectangular, polygonal, and circular portions of your image, as well as individual points. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::modules - Set of modules for creating CGI scripts. Requires the URI::Unescape class, which is part of the libwww bundle, so you'll need that too. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Response - A module for constructing responses to CGI requests. There's a "Simple Interface" which handles most common HTTP headers, and a "Full Interface" which handles everything else. Requires CGI::modules, which in turn requires the libwww bundle. Requir [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Out - A helper routine for CGI programs, CGI::Out buffers STDOUT until your script has completed. If an error occurs, a nice HTML error message will be generated instead of the drab "Server Error", or worse, nothing at all. It'll also send you e-mail whe [Perl] {oss}

HTTPD::Authen - Portable methods for authenticating users for your Web server. [Perl] {oss}

HTTPD::UserAdmin - Portable access to user databases for your Web server. [Perl] {oss}

HTTPD::GroupAdmin - Portable access to group databases for your Web server. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::MediaTypes - Guess the media type for a file or a URL. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::media.types - Not a module, just a list of the media types you'll often see in MIME headers (e.g. text/html, image/gif) and their likely file extensions (e.g. .html, .htm, .gif). [Perl] {oss}

Netscape::Server - Allows you to embed a Perl interpreter in a Netscape web server so you can use the Netscape API from Perl rather than C. [Perl] {oss}

mod_roaming-1.0.2_1 - An Apache module that works as a Netscape Roaming Access server

cgic - An ANSI C-language library for the creation of CGI-based World Wide Web {free to use but restricted}

WDDX SDK - SDK for building distributed web applications {OpenSource}

Libraries and Functions

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WWW authoring - Creating HTML, CGI

WWW robots and proxies - Automatic processing of HTTP requests

WWW Browsers - User interface for accessing the WWW

Up to: World Wide Web - HTTP, HTML, standards, browsers, transfer utilities, servers, et al.

freshmeat.net : Topic : Internet : WWW/HTTP : HTTP Servers

Www - - WEB utilities (browers, HTTP servers, etc).

Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:Caching

Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:CGI - Common Gateway Interface

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/servers/ - various WWW servers