Nhttpd
Encyclopedia
nhttpd is an open source
web server
designed by Marcus Glocker to be simple, fast and secure. It is also known as the Nostromo web server. It runs as a single process, and handles normal concurrent connections by select calls, but for efficiency during more demanding connections such as directory listings and CGI execution it forks. It supports HTTP/1.1 and CGI/1.1
, Basic access authentication, SSL, IPv6
, custom responses, aliases and virtual hosts. Security measures include running setuid
and chrooting
. Public access is controlled using the world readable flags and CGI execution by the world executable flags of the file system
permissions.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
web server
Web server
Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet....
designed by Marcus Glocker to be simple, fast and secure. It is also known as the Nostromo web server. It runs as a single process, and handles normal concurrent connections by select calls, but for efficiency during more demanding connections such as directory listings and CGI execution it forks. It supports HTTP/1.1 and CGI/1.1
Common Gateway Interface
The Common Gateway Interface is a standard method for web servers software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files...
, Basic access authentication, SSL, IPv6
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
, custom responses, aliases and virtual hosts. Security measures include running setuid
Setuid
setuid and setgid are Unix access rights flags that allow users to run an executable with the permissions of the executable's owner or group...
and chrooting
Chroot
A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name files outside the designated directory tree. The term "chroot" may refer to the chroot...
. Public access is controlled using the world readable flags and CGI execution by the world executable flags of the file system
File system
A file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the...
permissions.