Monkey Server
Monkey is a fast and lightweight Web Server for Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption, the perfect solution for Embedded Linux and high end production environments.
Besides the common features as HTTP server, it expose a flexible C API which aims to behave as a fully HTTP development framework, so it can be extended as desired through the plugins interface.
For more details please refer to the official documentation.
Features
HTTP/1.1 Compliant
Hybrid Networking Model: Asynchronous mode + fixed Threads
Indented configuration style
Versatile plugin subsystem / API
x86, x86_64 & ARM compatible
More features:
SSL
IPv6
Basic Auth
Log writer
Security
Directory Listing
CGI
FastCGI
Much more!
Embeddable as a shared library
Requirements
When building Monkey it needs:
CMake >= 2.8
Glibc >= 2.5
GNU C Compiler >= 3.2
Monkey requires the following components on runtime:
Linux Kernel >= 2.6.32
Pthreads support
Writing Scalable Web Services
If you are interested into use Monkey as a base platform build scalable web services, we recommend you check our Duda I/O project made for that purpose.
Join us!
Monkey is an open organization so we want to hear about you, we continue growing and you can be part of it!, you can reach us at:
If you want to get involved, please also refer to our Contributing guidelines.
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