Monkey HTTP Server is a fast and lightweight Web Server for Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption, the perfect solution for Embedded Linux and/or high production environments.
Besides the common features as HTTP server, it expose a flexible C API which aims to behave as a fully HTTP development framework, so it can be extended as desired through the plugins interface.
For more details please refer to the official documentation.
- HTTP/1.1 Compliant
- Hybrid Networking Model: Asynchronous mode + fixed Threads
- Indented configuration style
- Versatile plugin subsystem / API
- x86 & x86_64 architectures compatible (including ARM processors)
- Common features: SSL, IPv6, Basic Auth, log writer, security, directory listing, CGI, FastCGI, etc.
- Embeddable as a shared library (only one context supported currently)
Monkey requires the following components:
- Linux Kernel >= 2.6.32
- Glibc >= 2.5
- Pthreads
- GNU C Compiler >= 3.2
Monkey is an open organization so we want to hear about you, we continue growing and you can be part of it!, you can reach us at:
- Mailing list: http://lists.monkey-project.com
- IRC: irc.freenode.net #monkey
- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/monkeywebserver
- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Monkey-HTTP-Daemon-3211216
- Freecode: http://freecode.com/projects/monkey (R.I.P)
We are open to suggestions and criticisms, if you have an idea, found a bug, don't hesitate to report it to find a solution and if you have it, send it to include your code.
Eduardo Silva eduardo@monkey.io