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Compare AOLserver vs Apache HTTP Server vs Boa Web Server vs Caudium vs Cherokee Web Server vs HTTP File Server (HFS) vs Hiawatha Web Server vs IBM HTTP Server vs Internet Information Services (IIS) vs Jetty vs Lighttpd vs LiteSpeed Web Server vs...
| AOLserver | Apache | Boa | Caudium | Cherokee | HFS | Hiawatha | IBM | IIS | Jetty | Lighttpd | LiteSpeed | Mongrel | NaviServer | NCSA HTTPd | Nginx | nodejs | OpenLink Virtuoso | Oracle HTTP Server | Oracle iPlanet Web Server | Perlbal | thttpd | Tomcat | TUX | Wakanda Server | Xitami | Yaws | Zeus | |
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| Latest version | 4.5.1 | 2.2.19 | 0.94.14rc21 | 1.4.14 | 1.2.101 | 2.2f | 8.1 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 7.4.3 | 1.4.30 | 4.1.3 | 1.1.5 | 4.99.3 | 1.5.2a | 1.0.13 | 0.5.1 | 11g Release 1 | 7.0u8 | 1.79 | 2.25b | 7.0.14 | 4.131311 | 5.0a0 | 1.90 | 4.3r4 | ||
| Release date | 2009-02-02 | 2011-05-22 | 2005-02-23 | 2008-03-26 | 2011-10-18 | 2009-02-17 | 2012-02-25 | 2009-03-15 | 2009-10-22 | 2011-07-01 | 2011-12-18 | 2011-08-02 | 2008-05-22 | 2009-03-11 | 1996 | 2012-03-05 | 2011-07-14 | 2009 | 2010-01-20 | 2011-06-15 | 2003-12-29 | 2011-05-12 | 2013-04-17 | 2009-02-19 | 2011-05-25 | 2007-07-30 | ||
| License | Mozilla Public License | Apache License 2.0 | GPL | GPL | GPL | GPL | GPL 2 | Non-free/proprietary | Non-free/proprietary | Apache License 2.0 / Eclipse Public License 1.0 | BSD | Free (Standard Edition) Commercial license (Enterprise Edition) | GPL 2 / Ruby License | MPL 1.1 | Free for Non-Commercial Use | BSD | MIT | GPL and Commercial Versions | Non-free/proprietary | BSD | GPL / Artistic | BSD | Apache License | GPL | AGPL / Commercial | GPL | BSD variant | Non-free/proprietary |
| Development language | C | C, Perl | Pike, C | C | C | Java | C | Ruby | C | C++, JavaScript | Perl | C | Java | C++, JavaScript | Erlang | |||||||||||||
| Features | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Authentication | Yes basic only | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes basic only | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes basic only | Yes | Yes basic only | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||
| HTTPS support | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes paid version | Yes | Yes | |||
| Virtual hosting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| CGI support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| FastCGI support | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| ASP.NET | No | Yes via module | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||
| Java Servlets | No | No communicate via AJP with a servlet container | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |||
| Server Side Includes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Server-Side JavaScript | Yes use Webkit JavaScriptCore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Administration console | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No Plugin | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| IPv6 support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| Platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | No could run with Wine | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Mac OS | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Platforms details | Unix-like, Windows | Unix-like | Unix-like, Windows | Unix-like, Windows, Haiku os | Linux, Windows, Solaris, IBM OS | Windows | Java platforms | Unix-like, Windows | Ruby platforms | Unix-like, Windows | Unix-like, Windows | Perl platforms | Unix-like | Java platforms | need libbsd on Linux | Erlang platforms | ||||||||||||
| Additional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable web site using it | Wordpress.com | LiveJournal, Vox, TypePad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name | AOLserver | Apache HTTP Server | Boa Web Server | Caudium | Cherokee Web Server | HTTP File Server (HFS) | Hiawatha Web Server | IBM HTTP Server | Internet Information Services (IIS) | Jetty | Lighttpd | LiteSpeed Web Server | Mongrel | NaviServer | NCSA HTTPd | Nginx | nodejs | OpenLink Virtuoso | Oracle HTTP Server | Oracle iPlanet Web Server | Perlbal | thttpd | Apache Tomcat | TUX web server | Wakanda Server | Xitami | Yaws | Zeus Web Server |
| Website | http://httpd.apache.org/ | http://www.boa.org/ | http://cherokee-project.com/ | http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/ | http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ | http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/ | http://www.microsoft.com/iis | http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/ | http://www.lighttpd.net/ | http://www.litespeedtech.com/ | http://rubygems.org/gems/mongrel | http://www.nginx.org/ | http://nodejs.org/ | http://www.danga.com/perlbal/ | http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ | http://tomcat.apache.org/ | http://wakanda.org | http://www.xitami.com/ | http://yaws.hyber.org/ | http://www.zeus.com/products/web-server | ||||||||
| Wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boa_(web_server) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudium_(web_server) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_(Webserver) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_File_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_webserver | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_HTTP_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty_(web_server) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighttpd | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteSpeed_Web_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongrel_(web_server) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaviServer | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_HTTPd | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuoso_Universal_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_HTTP_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_iPlanet_Web_Server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlbal | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thttpd | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanda_(software) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xitami | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaws_(web_server) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_Web_Server |
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