Hiawatha is an open source webserver with security, easy to use and lightweight as the three key features. It supports among others (Fast)CGI, IPv6, URL rewriting and reverse proxy and has security features no other webserver has, like blocking SQL injections, XSS, CSRF and exploit attempts. Hiawatha runs perfectly on Linux, BSD and MacOS X.
The Hiawatha webserver has been written by Hugo Leisink hugo@leisink.net. More information about the Hiawatha webserver can be found at http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/.
If the CMake version installed on your system is lower than 2.8.4, remove it, download the latest version from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html and install it.
tar -xzf cmake-<version>.tar.gz
cd cmake-<version>
./configure
sudo make install
Use the following commands to compile and install Hiawatha. This will install Hiawatha in /usr/local.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. [options]
sudo make install/strip
The following options for cmake are available. Default value is in uppercase.
-DENABLE_CACHE=ON|off Enable internal cache support.
-DENABLE_DEBUG=on|OFF Enable debug information (for development only).
-DENABLE_IPV6=ON|off Enable IPv6 support.
-DENABLE_MONITOR=on|OFF Enable support for the Hiawatha Monitor.
-DENABLE_RPROXY=ON|off Enable reverse proxy support.
-DENABLE_SSL=ON|off Enable SSL (PolarSSL) support.
-DENABLE_TOMAHAWK=on|OFF Enable Tomahawk, the Hiawatha command shell.
-DENABLE_TOOLKIT=ON|off Enable the URL Toolkit.
-DENABLE_XSLT=ON|off Enable XSLT support.
-DUSE_SYSTEM_POLARSSL=on|OFF Compile Hiawatha against the system's PolarSSL library (>=1.2.0).
The following path settings are available for cmake.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path> The prefix for all other CMAKE_INSTALL directories.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR=<path> Location of the ssi-cgi binary.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_SBINDIR=<path> Location of the other Hiawatha binaries.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=<path> The configuration files will be installed in <path>/hiawatha.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=<path> The PolarSSL shared library will be installed in <path>/hiawatha.
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR=<path> Manual pages will be installed in <path>/man1.
-DCONFIG_DIR=<path> Location of the Hiawatha configuration files.
-DLOG_DIR=<path> Log directory used in the default hiawatha.conf.
-DPID_DIR=<path> Location of the Hiawatha PID file.
-DWEBROOT_DIR=<path> Webroot directory used in the default hiawatha.conf.
-DWORK_DIR=<path> Path of directory where Hiawatha can write temporary files.
Look inside the directory 'extra' for scripts to build packages for Debian, MacOS X and Windows (via Cygwin).
The Hiawatha Monitor is a monitoring tool for Hiawatha. It helps you to keep track of all your Hiawatha installation. It's a PHP5 webapplication and requires a MySQL database and the cron daemon for periodic downloading of statistical information from the webservers it monitors. More information about the Hiawatha Monitor can be found at http://hiawatha-webserver.org/monitor.
The Banshee PHP framework has also been written with security in mind. It has a Model-View-Controller architecture (XSLT for the views) and requires a MySQL database. More information about Banshee can be found at http://www.banshee-php.org/.
Other interesting projects can be found at http://projects.leisink.net/.