Freeware/rws

Status

Monolith is not actively maintained. The toolchain, ie. makeplus, c2lib, pthrlib, rws and Monolith, is looking for a new maintainer.

The technology is interesting, mature, fast and works very well.

If you fork the code or wish to take over as maintainer, please let me know.

About

rws is a small, fast web server written in C. It uses the pthrlib threading/server library and the c2lib library of Perl-like basics for C. These make it amongst the smallest, fastest and most straightforwardly written web servers available now.

As of version 1.0.11, the stripped binary is 27K and size reports:

 text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
24332     828      88   25248    62a0 rwsd

Of course, most of the magic is in pthrlib.

It supports a fairly minimal set of features so far:

Complies (mostly) with HTTP/1.1.
Serves files and includes an mmap(2) file cache.
Directory listings.
CGI script execution (NPH scripts only!)
Virtual hosts and aliases.
Shared object scripts: essentially CGI scripts written in C which are dynamically linked into the server memory at runtime. Very fast.
Rewrite rules using regular expressions.

Download

You will need to install the complete tool-chain before installing monolith:

c2lib - a Perl/STL-like library of basics for C
pthrlib - a library for writing small, fast and efficient servers in C

Always make sure you have the latest versions installed!

rws-1.2.0.tar.gz, released 2003/02/08.