10 ABYSS aims to be a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Its main design
11 goals are speed, low resource usage and portability. ABYSS works on most
12 UNIX based systems and on Win32 systems (Win95/98/2000/NT).
17 Copyright (C) 2000 Moez Mahfoudh. All rights reserved.
22 ABYSS is still in development stage. Actual version is 0.3. Many features
23 are not implemented yet but the server core works well and seems to be
24 stable. It is fully reliable for serving static files on medium load sites.
25 In fact, primary benchmarks show that ABYSS is 70% as fast as Apache when
26 using the fork system. This rate jumps to 130% when using threads.
27 On UNIX platforms, some problems occurred because of the use of the Pthreads
28 library. This will be corrected in the future versions. That's why only the
29 fork system is usable under UNIX. This lowers performances but guarantees
31 CGI/1.1 support is still absent from the current version but will be
32 included in the near future.
37 * Version 0.3 (March 23,2000):
38 o Handles conditional GET requests (by date)
39 o Conforms to all the MUSTs of the RFC2616 (newer version of the
40 HTTP/1.1 protocol draft)
41 o New configuration options (such as pidfile for UNIX systems...)
42 o Handles HEAD and OPTIONS methods
44 o Tested on Sun-OS 5.7
45 o Second public release
47 * Version 0.2 beta (February 7,2000):
48 o Handles GET on static files
49 o Handles correctly range requests
50 o Conforms to 80% of the MUSTs of the RFC2068 (HTTP/1.1 protocol
52 o Improved code portability (Win32 and UNIX platforms)
53 o Tested on Linux 2.2 and Win95/98
54 o First public release
56 * Version 0.1 (January 2000):
57 o Completely rewritten in C
59 o New memory allocation scheme (using pools)
62 * Version 0.0 (January 2000):
70 * Version 0.3 (current version):
71 o UNIX package (source) abyss-0.3.tar.gz.
72 o Win32 package is not available but you can extract source files
73 from the UNIX package and compile them on Windows without any
74 modification. (Sorry for this inconvenience: I have no Windows
75 machine now to compile the program and to test it. If someone can
76 do that, please email me the zipped package and I'll add it here).
79 o UNIX package (source) abyss-0.2b.tar.gz.
80 o Win32 package (source+binary) abyss-0.2b.zip.
86 o Untar/Ungzip the distribution package with a command like tar xvfz
88 o Edit the Makefile src/Makefile to meet your system requirements.
89 o Go to directory src and execute make.
90 o The server binary is generated and stored in the bin directory.
91 o Edit the conf/abyss.conf to reflect your system configuration (At
92 least change the paths).
93 o Goto to the bin directory and start the server by typing ./abyss
97 o Unzip the distribution package.
98 o An executable file is already present in the bin directory.
99 o If you wish to recompile the server, open the src/abyss.dsw file
100 with Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 or higher and rebuild the project.
101 o Edit the conf/abyss.conf to reflect your system configuration (At
102 least change the paths).
103 o Goto to the bin directory and start the server by typing ./abyss
104 -c ../conf/abyss.conf
109 Edit the conf/abyss.conf file and change the values of the available
115 Please email bug reports to mmoez@bigfoot.com
121 * Web based configuration/administration
123 * File caching system
125 * PUT method handling
131 ABYSS Web Server is licensed under a modified BSD type license:
133 Copyright (C) 2000 Moez Mahfoudh. All rights reserved.
135 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
136 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
139 * Redistributions of source code must retain the above
140 copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
142 * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
143 copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
144 disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
145 provided with the distribution.
146 * The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
147 products derived from this software without specific prior
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152 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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