Work with a web server management suite for your system. Build custom online pages, issue and configure passwords, enable or disable bandwidth throttling, etc. Manage materials based on TTP/1.1 and secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), control automated provisioning and renewal of free certificates, etc.
Abyss Web Server lets you run your own web server on your Mac. If you run a website, and also run your Mac 24/7, then you might be in for some savings. Abyss Web Server is a very advanced, stable and customizable web server that lets you turn your Mac into a web server. Installation is as easy as it could be. Simply running the .app file will install and launch the web server. Then all you have to do is go into the configuration console and point the app to where your website is on your hard drive and you are done. You access the console by typing in 127.0.0.1:9999 on your web browser address bar. Some of the settings include aliases, custom error pages, scripting, access control, IP address control, bandwidth limits and anti-leeching. There is also a very complete statistics system that you can access from the console.
This server can run PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, and ASP.NET web applications and it even supports databases. I have read countless reviews by other users who say it is very easy to configure PHP on this server.
By default, your website will run on port 8000, but you can change this from the settings.
There is a lot of help on the website that should let you solve any problems you have. And there are also good reads about how to customize the web server.
v2.8 [Jul 29, 2012]
- IPv6 support
- Reverse-proxy support
- Back-end operation: support for operation behind reverse proxies (X-Host/X-Forwarded-Host support - Host-wide : support for the use of the actual IP X-Forwarded-For - X-Forwarded-Proto)
- Configurable log
- Limit accesses per IP
- Server Activity: "Live" requests view in the console
- Added private keys dump in the console
- Detection of double instances and the presence of the Windows Service
- Added an optional base parameter to URL Rewriting rules
- Added timestamps to CGI error logs
- Support for chunked POSTs with HTTP trailer headers support
- Added full HTTP "Expect" header support
- Added request body restrictions: Added a parameter to limit the size of a request line, Added a parameter to limit the size of request headers length, Report error 414 or 400 for request length overflow
- Added ASP.NET/FastCGI processes recycling based on the process lifetime
- Full preload of ASP.NET applications (using an internal HTTP HEAD request)
- Added the capability to ASP.NET applications to handle all the virtual paths inside an application directory (useful for ASP.NET applications using MVC/AJAX/routes.)
- Updated SSL/TLS engine
- Updated documentation
- also includes several internal enhancements and fixes the problems that have been reported with previous versions.
