Monkey Server – fast and lightweight web 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, a good fit 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.

Monkey is built and tested for different architectures such as ARM, x86 and x64.

Features include:

• HTTP/1.1 Compliant.
• Hybrid Networking Model: Asynchronous mode + fixed Threads.
• Indented configuration style.
• Versatile plugin subsystem / API.
  • SSL/TLS.
  • CGI: Common Gateway Interface.
  • FastCGI: Fast CGI.
  • Liana: networking communication layer.
  • Cheetah! Shell.
  • Directory Listing.
  • Security: access restriction to the service by network address, subnets and request filters.
• 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.
• Cross-platform – Linux, mac OSX, and BSD operating systems are supported.

Website: github.com/monkey/monkey
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Eduardo Silva and contributors
License: Apache License v2.0

Monkey is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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