 Short name | 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 | Feb. 2nd 2009 | May 22nd 2011 | Feb. 23rd 2005 | Mar. 26th 2008 | Oct. 18th 2011 | Feb. 17th 2009 | Feb. 25th 2012 | Mar. 15th 2009 | Oct. 22nd 2009 | Jul. 1st 2011 | Dec. 18th 2011 | Aug. 2nd 2011 | May 22nd 2008 | Mar. 11th 2009 | 1996 | Mar. 5th 2012 | Jul. 14th 2011 | 2009 | Jan. 20th 2010 | Jun. 15th 2011 | Dec. 29th 2003 | May 12th 2011 | Apr. 17th 2013 | Feb. 19th 2009 | May 25th 2011 | Jul. 30th 2007 | ||
| 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 | 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 | |||||||||
| macOS | 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 |
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