Free web servers software for linux

Run a web server inside LAN is a simple script to run a WWW server inside a Local Area Network. Run a web server inside LAN script assume all iptables features are compiled statically in the kernel, or all modules are loaded.

Otherwise you may encounter some surprises trying to utilize the more featureful and creative commandlines that Ive come up with.

Sample:

#external and internal interfaces
EXT=eth0
INT=eth1

# clear everything, and create my cascading chains
iptables -F
iptables -N e0
iptables -N tcpin
iptables -N udpin

# e0 is the name of our chain for eth0
iptables -I INPUT -i $EXT -j e0

# OUTPUT Chain
iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXT -j DROP -p icmp --icmp-type ! echo-request

# remote gnutella queries were really pissing me off one day
# iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXT -j DROP -p tcp ! --syn --dport 6346
# iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXT -j DROP -p tcp ! --syn --sport 6346

# $EXT Chain
# a single rule to accept SYN Packets for multiple ports (up to 15)
iptables -A tcpin -j ACCEPT -p tcp --syn -m multiport --destination-ports 873,993,995,143,80,113,21,22,23,25,53

# stateful connection tracking is wonderful stuff
# ESTABLISHED tcp connections are let through
# If we send a SYN out, the ACK is seen as RELATED
# then further communication is accepted by the ESTABLISHED rule
iptables -A e0 -j ACCEPT -m state --state ESTABLISHED
iptables -A e0 -j ACCEPT -m state --state RELATED

# certain ports I simply DROP
iptables -A tcpin -j DROP -p tcp --syn -m multiport --destination-ports 6346,139

# UDP rules...
iptables -A udpin -j DROP -p udp -m multiport --destination-ports 137,27960

# I run a DNS server, so we must accept UDP packets on port 53
iptables -A udpin -j ACCEPT -p udp -m state --state NEW --destination-port 53

# lets log NEW udp packets on ports 1024:65535, then let them through
iptables -A udpin -j LOG -p udp -m state --state NEW --destination-port 1024:65535 --log-level debug --log-prefix UDPNEW --log-ip-options
iptables -A udpin -j ACCEPT -p udp -m state --state NEW --destination-port 1024:65535

# lets log NEW tcp packets on ports 1024:65535, then let them through
iptables -A tcpin -j LOG -p tcp --syn --destination-port 1024:65535 --log-level debug --log-prefix TCPNEW --log-tcp-options --log-ip-options
iptables -A tcpin -j ACCEPT -p tcp --syn --destination-port 1024:65535

# lets log INVALID or NEW tcp packets on priveleged ports, then DROP
# (remember I have certain ACCEPT rules higher up the chain)
iptables -A tcpin -j LOG -p tcp -m state --state INVALID,NEW --destination-port 1:1023 --log-level warn --log-prefix TCPPRIV --log-tcp-options --log-ip-options
iptables -A tcpin -j DROP -p tcp -m state --state INVALID,NEW --destination-port 1:1023

iptables -A e0 -p tcp -j tcpin
iptables -A e0 -p udp -j udpin
iptables -A e0 -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix NETFILTER --log-ip-options -m state --state INVALID,NEW
iptables -A e0 -j DROP

# NAT Rules
# I run a web server inside...
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.4:80

LiteSpeed web server is an Apache interchangeable, full-featured high performance, secure HTTP server specifically engineered from the ground up with security and scalability in mind.
LiteSpeed Web Server is engineered to be Apache interchangeable, which means LiteSpeed has all the flexibilities that Apache has, but in much faster manner, such as distributed configuration .htaccess support.
The most commonly used Apache modules have been implemented in LiteSpeed with similar functionality and configuration, but completely different design and implementation.
Currently, LiteSpeed uses Apache compatible configuration for .htaccess and URL rewriting and eventually LiteSpeed will be able to use Apaches configuration file directly. This makes your switching between Apache and LiteSpeed very easy and risk free.
LiteSpeed Web Server has superb performance. Our measurements shows that it is more than 6 times faster than Apache, beating other lightweight content accelerators, such as thttpd, boa and TUX when serving static content, plus up to 50% increase in PHP performance than that of Apaches mod_php and more than doubled CGI/Fast CGI performance.
When you compare LiteSpeed Web Server to highly regarded and highly priced Zeus Web Server, you will find a lot of things in common: similar architecture and similar feature set, including some of the advanced features like web administration interface, MS FrontPage support, URL Rewriting, .htaccess and LDAP authentication. The biggest difference is that LiteSpeed is much more affordable, actually, it could cost you nothing.
LiteSpeed Web Server is also a real-world proven high performance content accelerator, compression proxy, and application security gateway leveraged by its highly scalable, low latency proxy engine.
With the combination of ease of use, tight security, outstanding performance, scalability, and reliability, LiteSpeed Web Server is the ultimate web server you ever need!
Main features:
- Backward compatible with HTTP/1.0
- Chunked Transfer Encoding
- Basic Authentication (htpasswd and LDAP backend)
- Entity Tag
- Range/Multi-range Request
- Static and dynamic content compression(gzip)
- CGI/1.1
- Fast CGI
- PHP (through Fast CGI interface), compatible with third party PHP Accelerators.
- JSP/Servlet (interface to back-end Servlet engine)
- Transparent reverse proxy (interface to back-end web server, application server)
- URL Rewriting is fully compatible with Apaches configuration
- Supports content publishing with MS Frontpage client.
- Supports IP based and name based virtual hosting
- Apache compatible distributed per-directory Access Control and Authentication configuration
- High performance Secure HTTP (HTTPS): supports SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1
- Access Control at server, virtual host and directory (context) level
- File system protection
- HTTP Authentication
- IP level throttling (Bandwidth and Request Rate)
- Comprehensive IP level connection accounting
- Hotlink protection
- Strict HTTP request checking
- Comprehensive protection for static files
- External application firewall for dynamic content
- CGI resources consumption limit
- CGI suEXEC excution and chroot
- Chroot whole server process[Professional Edition only]
- Watch dog and Instant recovery maximizes up-time
- Graceful shutdown, all requests in process will be completed.
- Runs completely in the user space, OS reliability is not affected
- CGI, Fast CGI and servlet engine run in standalone processes, the reliability of the web server is not affected by third party software.

WebServerInfo PHP class is intended for developer who create software that will run
on different web servers. The project gives a developer a consistent interface
for accessing web servers variables.

Usage:

You have following options:

Option #1
require_once("WebServerInfo.class.php");
$obj = new WebServerInfo();
print $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT];

Option #2
require_once("WebServerInfo.class.php");
$obj = new WebServerInfo();
print $obj->get(DOCUMENT_ROOT);

Option #3
uncomment the 3rd line from WebServerInfo.class.php
and all you have to do is require the WebServerInfo.class.php class.

Note:
The constructor of WebServerInfo class overrides $_SERVER variable and
variables can be accessed as usual way.


Following base variables are exported if they do not exist.

REQUEST_URI
REDIRECT_URL
DOCUMENT_ROOT
SERVER_SIGNATURE
SERVER_ADDR
SCRIPT_FILENAME

The Ming Server generates Web pages statically or dynamically. As a local executable, it generates a static site from a directory tree of simple text files.
Installed in cgi-bin, it creates those same pages on demand in response to browser requests. Parsing of different source types, the creation, and the writing of pages are separated, making it easy to extend The Ming Server to new data types or delivery methods.
Enhancements:
- A bug in Logger was fixed along with a problem in ming.cgi.

AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively scalable and extensible Web server tuned for large scale, dynamic Web sites.

AOLserver includes complete database integration, dynamic page scripting, and an open, extensible architecture.

Web-Based Adult Content Server is a suite of programs which manage photo sets and video clips of an adult nature.
It runs on a home Linux/Unix server and creates a personalized adult Web server in which to store, preuse, and catalogue a personal collection of adult material.
Web-Based Adult Content Server has many features, like model catalogs, attribute-based searching, randomized highlights, new addition lists, and a flexible bookmark mechanism.
Enhancements:
- This release has new features and many bugfixes.
- It includes a new Web-based Model Manager application, locations-based filtering (e.g. Bathroom), and a new connections infrastructure for galleries and ad-hoc collections.