Basic World Wide Web servers

Basic World Wide Web servers

Apache server

The Apache project has produced a full-featured, general purpose HTTP
server, including non-forking server pool operation, an API for server
extensions, content negotiation, extended logfiles, etc. Includes the
complete source code. Platforms: unix.

CERN server

The World Wide Web daemon program, full featured, with access
authorization and research tools. This daemon is also used as a basis
for many other types of server and gateways. Platforms: unix, VMS.

NCSA server

A server for files, written in C, public domain. Many features as
CERN's httpd. Platforms: unix.

Spinner

Spinner is a modularised, object oriented World Wide Web HTTP/1.0 and
HTTP/0.9 compliant server, distributed under the GPL license.

Alibaba

A server for Windows NT provided by Computer Software Manufaktur.

CL-HTTP

CL-HTTP is a full-featured, object-oriented HTTP server written in Common
Lisp by John
Mallery at the M.I.T.
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It runs on MAC, UNIX, and the
Lisp Machine, and ports are underway to the PC.

GoServe

A server for OS/2 supporting both HTTP and Gopher, from Mike
Cowlishaw of IBM UK Laboratories.

GN

A single server providing both HTTP and Gopher access to the same
data. In C, General Public License. Designed to help servers transition
from gopher to WWW. Platforms: unix.

GWHIS Server

Specialized WWW Servers. Commercial, from Quadralay, Inc.

HTTPS for Windows/NT

Service for NT. Configurable using control panel.

Jungle

Server in Tk/TCL being written by Lindsay Marshall

MacHTTP

Server for the Macintosh.

Netsite

Commercially supported server from Netscape Communications Inc.

Perl server

from Marc VanHeyningen at Indiana University. Written in perl. Platforms: unix

Phttpd server

A general WWW server written in C, using features like
multithreading, memory mapping and dynamic linking to achieve its goals
of high speed, scalability and light weight. Written by Peter Eriksson
of Signum Support AB. Platform: SunOS 5.4 (Unix)

Plexus

Tony Sander's server originally based on Marc VH's, but incorporating
lots more stuff, including an Archie gateway, etc etc. Platforms:
unix.

Purveyor

Process Software's server for Windows NT and future Win32 platforms
such as Windows 95.

REXX for VM

A server consisting of a amall C program which passes control to a
server written in REXX.

HTTP for VM

By R.M.Troth.
See list of sites
using it.

VAX/VMS server

Uses DEC/Threads for speed.

SerWeb

SerWeb is a WWW server that can run on the Windows 3.1 system.

Website

A server for NT and Win95 from O'Reilly.

Windows httpd 1.4

A Windows server created by Robert Denny; see the home page for full
details.

WN

The design of WN is based on the use of a small flat database in each
directory with information about the files in that directory. Fields
associated with a file include its title, and may include keywords,
expiration date and any user defined fields like author or document id.