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Product Description:
Xerver Free Web Server is a tiny fast web server allowing you to run CGI scripts on your computer. The Xerver package also includes a FTP server. Xerver includes features such as: Run scripts (Perl, PHP etc.), create aliases (virtual directories), allow/deny directory listing, create your own error pages ("404 Not Found"), allow/deny CGI-scripts, password protected folders, choose your own index file extensions, share/unshare hidden files or files with certain file extensions, share unlimited folders etc. Xerver is a tiny, fast and free web server, but is still advanced and supports HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1 and all HTTP methods (GET, POST and HEAD).
What's new in this version:
- Significant updates to the FTP server.
- Support for more client commands.
- Many minor improvements.
- Code optimization - lower memory usage and better server performance.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements:
- Java interpreter installed
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Why? - Version: 4.31, 1/20/2007 06:27AM PST
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grhodes
I mean really. What's the point here? Mac OS X already has Apache, PHP, SSH, and FTP already built in. Turning on Apache, SSH and FTP is as simple as checking a box in the control panel under "Sharing".
What's the purpose of this product?
What's the purpose of this product?
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Why bother - Version: 4.15, 3/12/2005 03:17PM PST
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davjosmes
OS X has a full Apache web server built in, has PHP built in, SQL is easy to install. You can use any language for cgi scripting including Perl and Python, which are both built in. I fail to see the point of writing another web server.
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Having said that, I can't recommend this as fulfilling its stated aims. The downloads is tiny, but once it's running it is NOT small. It consumes quite a lot of memory.... far more than my Caudium server. The installation and setup readme has a very serious ommision - the setup command must be run from the xerver directory (i.e. "cd [xerver directory]"). The setup sequence is not as clearly or intelligently laid out as it should be, and easily could be. "Help" doesn't really.
There is definitely a place for a good, easy to set up gui administered server, but there are others that are fuller featured and easier to administer. I would definitely recommend the free version of LightSpeed as first choice followed by the free version of Abyss from Aprelium. Xerver has some way to go to match them, but we should be applauding and encouraging the efforts of developers who are attempting to provide good alternative solutions, and I hope this does improve.