Abyss Personal Web Server – Host Sites on your Computer

Abyss Web Server is a small personal web server that allows you to host your Web sites on your computer. It supports secure SSL/TLS connections   as well as a wide range of Web technologies. Abyss Web Server  supports HTTP/1.1, CGI scripts, partial downloads, caching negotiation, index files and directory aliases.

It can also run advanced PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, ASP.NET, and Ruby on Rails Web applications which can be backed by databases such as MySQL, SQLite, MS SQL Server, MS Access, or Oracle.Abyss Web Server X1 is a free and fully functional software no nag screens, no time limitations, no spyware, and no advertisements.

It is the ideal web server software for personal users, web developers, students, small businesses and home offices.ABYSS aims to be a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Its main design goals are speed, low resource usage and portability. ABYSS works on most UNIX based systems and on Win32 systems (Win95/98/2000/NT).

Features :

  • Built from scratch.
  • Modular.
  • Customizable – you can build a version which includes only the features you need.[advt]
  • Highly portable: it is written in ANSI C.
  • Low memory use.
  • Low system load.
  • Tiny – on Linux, the executable size is about KB.
  • Fast – On stable development releases, it is 70% as fast as Apache.
  • Automatic anti-hacking system.

Additional features include anti-hacking protection, Server Side Includes (SSI), secure SSL connections, access control, users and groups management, customizable MIME types, custom error pages, URL Rewriting, ASP support, virtual directories, statistics etc.

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