Webserver

Nginx

Nginx file extension whitelisting

2011-06-23 Felix Ehlers

Nginx is a great webserver that is flexible, feature rich and fairly well documented. But have you ever wanted to whitelist files upon their extensions and did not find a solution in the documentation reference? The bad answer is you will not find it.

The good answer is: It is possible.

Nginx 1.0 released

2011-04-13 Felix Ehlers

After nine years of development nginx reaches version 1.0.0 which is now the latest stable version and ready for production. Version 0.8.54 is now the newest legacy stable version.

Lighttpd 1.4.24 released

2009-10-29 Felix Ehlers

Lighttpd 1.4.24 is out which brings TLS SNI support, connection state handling and improved FastCGI code. Also a lot of bugs were fixes.

Lighttpd 1.21 released

2009-02-18 Felix Ehlers

Version 1.21 is mainly a bugfix release over 1.4.20 and fixes at least 30 bugs. There are also 3 new features: mod_compress now supports caching through etags and last-modifieda new config setting debug.log-timeouts = “enable”. The default is now disabled and eleminates annoying log entriesa new $HTTP[“language”] conditional that allows interesting stuff like url rewritings that takes language codes into account The official Lighttpd 1.4.21 release announcement and changelog

Hiawatha 6.10 released, new feature: CSRF protection

2008-10-30 Felix Ehlers

Hugo Leisink has released a new version of his webserver hiawatha. The version 6.10 adds CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) protection. Hiawatha is a secure and light webserver written in C.

Webserver

Nginx

Nginx file extension whitelisting

Nginx

Nginx 1.0 released

Open Source

Lighttpd 1.4.24 released

Open Source

Lighttpd 1.21 released

Open Source

Hiawatha 6.10 released, new feature: CSRF protection