Xitami 5.0a0

Xitami - High-quality portable free web server

Xitami is a high-quality portable free web server

Xitami is a high-quality portable free web server. It is distributed with source code according to a liberal License Agreement.

What's special about Xitami?

- It will run on Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 3.x, all UNIX platforms, OS/2 and OpenVMS. At iMatix, we make software portability a reality.
- You'll be surprised at how easily Xitami installs. Since the software comes fully configured, you don't need to change a single option to run it.
- Xitami is small, fast, and robust: it's based on a solid software engineering tools that we developed for multithreaded TCP/IP servers.
- Unlike any other web server, Xitami was designed as a set of portable reusable components. It's easy to extend and reincorporate.

Xitami 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.

Xitami 5.0a0 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform. Xitami is provided as a free download for all software users (Freeware).