NaviServer

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NaviServer
Original author(s)NaviSoft
Developer(s)Bernd Eidenschink, Ibrahim, Stephen Deasey, Gustaf Neumann, Vlad Seryakov, Zoran Vasiljevic
Stable release
4.99.30[1] / 26 January 2024; 8 months ago (26 January 2024)
Written in
Cross-platform
TypeWeb server
LicenseMozilla Public License
WebsiteGitHub Repository SourceForge

NaviServer[2][3] is a high performance web server written in C and Tcl. It can be easily extended in either language to create web sites and services; there are over 35 modules available (including database integration or protocol support for UDP, SMTP, LDAP, DNS, COAP, etc.)

The project is under active development, NaviServer is mostly written in C with a very well-commented source code, had more than 6,000 commits made by 35 contributors representing more than 100,000 lines of code.[4] NaviServer is licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

Recent new features include:

  • an internal watchdog for automatic server restarts
  • server internals exposed in a
    command line
    mode
  • thread shared arrays (atomic operations, dict support)
  • built-in caching with cache transaction semantics (cache commit/rollback)
  • hot code swapping (update code in the running system without server restart)
  • asynchronous spooling of requests and replies
  • delivery of static files optionally with gzip or brotli compression with automatic re-compression on updates
  • selective logging with color highlighting (non-blocking)
  • efficient built-in crypto support
  • mass virtual hosting
  • byte-range requests for streaming and resumption of downloads
  • rich HTTPS support (server and client-side SNI, OCSP Stapling)
  • built-in HTTP/HTTPS client support, with log-files
  • built-in statistics (for mutex locks/rwlocks, cache, db-handles, ...)
  • bandwidth management via multiple connection thread pools
  • WebSocket and IPv6 support

History

NaviServer is based on

AOL's open-source web server. The NaviServer project started as a fork of the AOLserver project in July 2005.[5] It is different by supporting multiple protocols, providing higher scalability through asynchronous I/O
and aims to be less conservative with new feature development.

Historically NaviServer was the original name of the server, a closed-source product by a company called NaviSoft in the early 1990s.[6] It was bought by AOL in 1995, and released as open-source in 1999 as AOLserver after they released Mozilla. This friendly-fork takes the code back to its original name.

Large applications of NaviServer are the ArsDigita Community System and OpenACS in particular.

See also

  • Comparison of web servers

References

  1. ^ "NaviServer - Browse /naviserver/4.99.30 at SourceForge.net".
  2. ^ NaviServer Project
  3. ^ Official NaviServer NaviServer Source Code Repository
  4. ^ "NaviServer statistics from Open Hub"
  5. ^ "naviserver-4.99.0"
  6. ^ "The Web Tools Review on Servers"