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Web Server Overview
To obtain an WebInterface to administer OpenWrt, see webinterface.overview.
Web server Packages in OpenWrt repository
| Name | Size | Depends → Depends |
Size | Optional Packages →Depends |
Size | Last Updated | Language | License | Features | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 404.263 | libapr →libpthread →librt libaprutil →libexpat →libsqlite3 →libuuid libpcre libopenssl |
65.004 →29.572 →5.506 53.747 →52.282 →290.080 →6.295 76.843 592.211 |
C | Apache 2.0 | The Apache Web Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet. This package contains the Apache web server and utility programs. . Take care that you don't include apache at the moment into your image please select it only as module because busybox will override /usr/sbin/httpd. It'll be solved soon. If you need to include this package in the image anyway, remove httpd from busybox (Base system –> Configuration –> Networking Utilities –> httpd). Also you should take care for the initscripts, apache's httpd isn't compatible with the one from busybox, so if you want to use apache for running your WebUI, you'll need to change the parameters in the scripts and configure the rest in /etc/httpd.conf. |
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| axhttpd | 7.126 | libaxtls | 35.157 | C | ??? | http://axtls.sourceforge.net/ | ||||
| Hiawatha | 51.017 | libpthread | 29.572 | C | GPLv2 | |||||
| Busybox-httpd | – | C | GPLv2 | |||||||
| Lighttpd | 83.230 | libopenssl zlib libpcre libpthread |
592.211 40.447 76.843 29.572 |
lighttpd-mod-access lighttpd-mod-accesslog lighttpd-mod-alias lighttpd-mod-auth lighttpd-mod-cgi lighttpd-mod-cml lighttpd-mod-compress lighttpd-mod-evasive lighttpd-mod-evhost lighttpd-mod-expire lighttpd-mod-extforward lighttpd-mod-fastcgi lighttpd-mod-flv-streaming lighttpd-mod-magnet lighttpd-mod-proxy lighttpd-mod-redirect lighttpd-mod-rewrite lighttpd-mod-rrdtool lighttpd-mod-scgi lighttpd-mod-secdownload lighttpd-mod-setenv lighttpd-mod-simple-vhost lighttpd-mod-ssi lighttpd-mod-status lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl lighttpd-mod-userdir lighttpd-mod-usertrack lighttpd-mod-webdav |
C | rev BSD | A flexible and lightweight web server | |||
| mini-httpd | 21.141 | – | – | C | GPLv3+ | mini_httpd is a small HTTP server. Its performance is not great, but for low or medium traffic sites it's quite adequate. It implements all the basic features of an HTTP server, including: - GET, HEAD, and POST methods - CGI - Basic authentication - Security against ".." filename snooping - The common MIME types - Trailing-slash redirection - index.html, index.htm, index.cgi - Directory listings - Multihoming / virtual hosting - Standard logging - Custom error pages It can also be configured to do IPv6. |
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| mini-httpd-matrixssl | 24.405 | libmatrixssl →libpthread |
38.825 →29.572 |
This package is built with SSL/HTTPS using MatrixSSL | ||||||
| mini-httpd-openssl | 23.576 | libopenssl →zlib |
592.193 →40.510 |
This package is built with SSL/HTTPS using OpenSSL | ||||||
| nginx | 191.417 | libpcre zlib |
76.843 40.447 |
C | 2-clause BSD-like license | Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server | ||||
| uhttpd | 19.782 | – | – | uhttpd-mod-lua →liblua uhttpd-mod-tls →libcyassl |
5.730 →72.950 2.454 →64.864 |
C | Mixed GPLv2 Apache 2.0 |
Blocking | single threaded HTTP server with TLS, CGI and Lua https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/uhttpd/ |
- See → Comparison_of_web_servers#Features for more features.
- http.owhttpd OWFS http server.
- LAMP to install an entire LAMP stack
More Pros and Cons
 whoever wants to, can replace the description with these points: |
- lighttpd - no support for .htaccess
- apache - big memory hog
- nginx - no project bug tracking system
- uhttpd - limited to a single PHP process
Differences
Which WebServer shall I choose? Differences may be:
- the version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol supported, e.g. Hiawatha documents its features nicely
- resource usage (memory, CPU time or storage)
- scalability
- the availability of a certain needed module or plugin
Note that these articles may never be completed. This page shall not be a list of WebServer software, that you can find in the Wikipedia:
You can obtain an incomplete list of packages related to the HTTP by typing opkg list | awk '/http/ {print $0}'
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doc/howto/http.overview.txt · Last modified: 2012/06/01 23:07 by pnaulls