| NaviServer | |
| NaviServer | |
| Author: | NaviSoft |
| Developer: | Bernd Eidenschink, Ibrahim, Stephen Deasey, Gustaf Neumann, Vlad Seryakov, Zoran Vasiljevic |
| Programming Language: | C, Tcl |
| Operating System: | Cross-platform |
| Genre: | Web server |
| License: | Mozilla Public License |
| Website: | GitHub RepositorySourceForge |
NaviServer[1] [2] is a high performance web server written in C and Tcl. It can be easily extended in either language to create web sites and services; there are over 35 modules available (including database integration or protocol support for UDP, SMTP, LDAP, DNS, COAP, etc.)
The project is under active development,NaviServer is mostly written in C with a very well-commented source code, had more than 6,000 commits made by 35 contributorsrepresenting more than 100,000 lines of code.[3] NaviServer is licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
Recent new features include:
NaviServer is based on AOLserver (version 4.10), AOL's open-source web server. The NaviServer project started as a fork of the AOLserver project in July 2005.[4] It is different by supporting multiple protocols, providing higher scalability through asynchronous I/O and aims to be less conservative with new feature development.
Historically NaviServer was the original name of the server, a closed-source product by a company called NaviSoft in the early 1990s.[5] It was bought by AOL in 1995, and released as open-source in 1999 as AOLserver after they released Mozilla. This friendly-fork takes the code back to its original name.
Large applications of NaviServer are the ArsDigita Community System and OpenACS in particular.