Hiawatha
Open source web server for Unix-like systems, focused on security and a small footprint, with CGI, FastCGI and reverse proxy support.
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Hiawatha is an open source web server for Unix-like systems, written in C, with a focus on security. The project offers a source tarball that is built with CMake, and packages for Debian and Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and macOS, plus a Windows package compiled with Cygwin. The server is a long-running process that stops by its process ID, as its starting and stopping HOWTO describes. The project’s support page holds its HOWTO pages on installation and configuration. Hugo Leisink maintains it under the GPL version 2.
Worth knowing
The Debian and Ubuntu packages come from a third-party packaging repository, not from the project itself.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Hugo Leisink1
- Maintained by
- Individual1
- First release
- 200210
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
- Contributors
- 111
Sources
- 2026-10-29: links, Maintainer, Maintained by
hiawatha.leisink.net/ - 2026-10-29: links
gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/hsleisink%2Fhiawatha - 2026-10-29: links
hiawatha.leisink.net/support - 2026-10-29: Categories
hiawatha.leisink.net/about - 2026-10-29: Written in
gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/81921476/languages - 2026-10-29: Runtime, Install with
hiawatha.leisink.net/howto/compilation_and_installation - 2026-10-29: Runs as
hiawatha.leisink.net/howto/starting_and_stopping - 2026-10-29: Install with, License, License model
hiawatha.leisink.net/download - 2026-10-29: Current major version
hiawatha.leisink.net/latest - 2026-10-29: Last release, First release
hiawatha.leisink.net/changelog - 2026-10-29: Contributors
gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/81921476/repository/contributors?per_page=100