NaviServer
NaviServer is a high performance web server written in C and Tcl. It can be easily extended in either language to create web sites and services; there are over 35 modules available.
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| Original author(s) | NaviSoft |
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| Developer(s) | Bernd Eidenschink, Ibrahim, Stephen Deasey, Gustaf Neumann, Vlad Seryakov, Zoran Vasiljevic |
| Stable release | 4.99.20
/ January 17, 2021 |
| Written in | C, Tcl |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Web server |
| License | Mozilla Public License |
| Website | naviserver |
The project is under active development, hosted on SourceForge. Licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
Recent new features include:
- an internal watchdog for automatic server restarts
- server internals exposed in a command line mode
- selective logging with color highlighting
- efficient built-in crypto support
- mass virtual hosting
- uses optionally the Tcl virtual file system (for optional single-file Starkit deployment)
- byte-range requests for streaming and resumption of downloads
- WebSocket and IPv6 support
History
NaviServer is based on AOLserver (version 4.10), AOL's open-source web server. The NaviServer project started as a fork of the AOLserver project in July 2005.[1] It is different by supporting multiple protocols, providing higher scalability through asynchronous I/O and aims to be less conservative with new feature development.
Historically NaviServer was the original name of the server, a closed-source product by a company called NaviSoft in the early 1990s. It was bought by AOL in 1995, and released as open-source in 1999 as AOLserver after they released Mozilla. This friendly-fork takes the code back to its original name.
Large applications of NaviServer are the ArsDigita Community System and OpenACS in particular.
See also
- Comparison of web servers