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author | Antonio Hernández Blas <hba.nihilismus@gmail.com> | 2012-06-30 12:08:02 -0400 |
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committer | dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org> | 2012-06-30 12:08:02 -0400 |
commit | 964b77fc39b8cc97b4d34ca5c3f8c6756085f231 (patch) | |
tree | a27a477e7aa40a774c3714e79026aa64062b34aa /network/hiawatha/README | |
parent | 585c78f0a98d34e1c7e0793ca2adaf60a8cb6ed5 (diff) | |
download | slackbuilds-964b77fc39b8cc97b4d34ca5c3f8c6756085f231.tar.gz |
network/hiawatha: Updated for version 8.3.2.
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/network/hiawatha/README b/network/hiawatha/README index 4a1f174285..7bb2081e59 100644 --- a/network/hiawatha/README +++ b/network/hiawatha/README @@ -1,7 +1,34 @@ Hiawatha (A secure and advanced webserver) -Hiawatha is a secure webserver for Unix. It has been written with -'being secure' as its main goal. Hiawatha has lots of features that -no other webserver has. This and the fact that Hiawatha's source -code is free of security-bugs, makes Hiawatha the most secure -webserver available. +Hiawatha is a webserver for Unix and has been built with security +in mind. This resulted in a highly secure webserver, in both code +and features. + +Hiawatha supports many web and HTTP features such as +CGI/FastCGI, HTTP authentication, virtual host support, request +pipelining, keep alive connections, URL rewriting and many more. + +Notes: + + To build/use this package the users/groups 'hiawatha' and 'php-fcgi' are + required. You can create them with: + + # groupadd -g 259 hiawatha + # useradd -u 259 -g 259 -c "User for hiawatha" -d / -s /bin/false hiawatha + + # groupadd -g 260 php-fcgi + # useradd -u 260 -g 260 -c "User for php-fcgi" -d / -s /bin/false php-fcgi + + By default: + + * hiawatha daemon is going to be listening in the network interface 127.0.0.1:80 + and php-fcgi daemon will create the unix socket /var/run/hiawatha/php-fcgi.sock + + * The web root directory is /srv/hiawatha with index.html being + the default start file. + + * hiawatha daemon can write temporary files inside /var/lib/hiawatha + + Hiawatha's documentation can be readed in the next URL: + http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/support + |