Hiawatha

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Access control

Access to websites can be controlled with Basic or Digest HTTP authentication or by IP address.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

CGI and FastCGI

Hiawatha supports CGI scripts and FastCGI, including load balancing, and includes a CGI wrapper for security.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Free monitor

The Hiawatha Monitor is free.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Intended use

The maker says Hiawatha's lightweight design makes it suitable for older hardware or embedded systems.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

License

The webserver is distributed under GNU GPL version 2.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Monitoring

Hiawatha Monitor provides one interface to track the performance and security of Hiawatha webservers.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Monitoring requirements

Hiawatha Monitor is a PHP web application with a MySQL backend and requires cron to periodically download statistics.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Performance

Features for speeding up websites include internal caching, keep-alive connections, request pipelining and GZip Content-Encoding.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Protocols

Hiawatha supports HTTP/2 and IPv6.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Purpose

Hiawatha is an advanced, secure webserver designed for Unix.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Reverse proxy

Its built-in reverse proxy can integrate other web solutions or act as an application firewall in front of other webservers.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

Security

It supports TLS via mbed TLS and offers protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF/XSRF and DoS attacks.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

URL rewriting

The URL toolkit can rewrite URLs, and predefined rules are available for popular PHP CMS applications.hiawatha.leisink.net · read 8 Oct 2026

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