Xerver is an advanced free GNU GPL Web and FTP server.
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Xerver brief feature list:
- Very fast and low memory usage.
- GNU GPL open source.
- Contains all features the larger web servers offers:
- PHP and Perl support
- FTP server included
- Virtual directories
- Password protected folders
- Customized error messages ("404 Not Found")
- Much, much more (see full list below).
Top 25 reasons to use
Xerver free web server!
- User Friendly
- A very-easy-to-use setup web interface, including a Setup Wizard.
- "Check for updates" feature is included.
- Features
- A complete FTP server is included.
- HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 supported.
- All HTTP methods supported (GET, POST and HEAD).
- Advanced logging.
- Create aliases (virtual directories).
- Create password protected folders. (Create users and choose which folder(s) each user shall have access to).
- Run CGI-scripts
(run your own scripts on your hard drive).
Among other script types, Perl and PHP scripts can be run.
- Allow/deny directory listing.
- Choose which port Xerver shall use.
- Use your own error pages (for example "404 Not Found").
- Choose which files shall be considered index-files.
- Run Xerver as a background process.
- Remote administration available.
- Security
- Allow users to download only files with
certain file extensions.
- Choose which folder(s) you want to share.
- Choose if you want to share hidden files.
- If you create password protected folders,
the crypto that is used by Xerver is a
safe one-way crypto which by today has no
known decrypting algorithms.
- About Xerver
- Xerver is freeware.
- Xerver is open source, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Any computer/system (such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac etc.)
with a Java interpreter installed can run Xerver.
- Requires less than 1 Mb hard drive space.
- Requires very low system resources.
- Xerver is fast, free and reliable. Why use something else?
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