Xitami description
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.

Here are some key features of "Xitami":

· 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.