Xzero HTTP Application Web Server

x0d is a thin low-latency and scalable HTTP web server built on-top of the Xzero C++ HTTP Framework.

It supports a very expressive and natural configuration via the Flow configuration language and a number of standard plugins to become your web application server.

Features

• Customizable Error Pages
• Automatic Directory Indexing
• on-the-fly executable upgrade with gracefully finishing currently active requests.
• Easily Extensible via the Powerful Plugin System
• SSL connection encryption
  • SSL Server Name Indication (SNI) extension
• Dynamic Content Compression
• Advanced Dynamic Load Balancer
  • Supporting different backend transports (TCP/IP, and UNIX Domain Sockets).
  • Supporting different backend protocols (HTTP and FastCGI)
  • Advanced Health Monitoring
  • JSON API for retrieving state, stats, and reconfiguring clusters (including adding/updating/removing backends).
  • Client Side Routing support
  • Sticky Offline Mode
  • X-Sendfile support, full static file transmission acceleration
  • HAproxy compatible CSV output
  • Object Cache
    • fully runtime configurable
    • client-cache aware
    • life JSON stats
    • supports serving stale objects when no backend is available
    • Vary response-header Support.
    • multiple update strategies (locked, shadowed)
• Basic Authentication
  • including PAM authentication
• Request Path Aliasing
• Automatic Directory Listing
• Apache-style access logging
• User-directory Support
• Browser Match Support
• Customizable Expires & Cache-Control Response Header Control
• instant mode (configuration-less basic HTTP serving)
• CGI/1.1 Support

Installation Requirements

• latest stable CLANG (4.0) or a comparible GCC
• automake / autoconf (for building only)
• zlib (optional & recommended, for compression)
• OpenSSL (optional & recommended, for SSL/TLS encryption)

Building from Source on Ubuntu 17.04:

# Installs required dependencies
sudo apt-get install make autoconf automake libtool gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 \
    libmysqlclient-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev pkg-config libssl-dev \
    libfcgi-dev libgoogle-perftools-dev libpam-dev git

# Install git and clone repository
git clone git://github.com/christianparpart/x0.git && cd x0

# Now bootstrap the build (in a sandbox directory)
mkdir -p build && cd build && ../autogen.sh
../configure # <-- your custom configure-flags here

# Now compiling should just work.
make && sudo make install

# Run web server on port 8080
./x0d --instant=`pwd`/www/htdocs,8080

# or try its CLI help
./x0d -h

# have fun hacking and don't forget to checkout the just installed man pages ;-)

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Christian Parpart <[email protected]>

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