Necronda web server

Features

• Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Serving local files via HTTP and HTTPS
  • File compression (gzip, Brotli) and disk cache for compressed files
• Reverse proxy for other HTTP and HTTPS servers
• FastCGI support (e.g. PHP-FPM)
• Support for MaxMind's GeoIP Database
• Optional DNS reverse lookup for connecting hosts
• Automatic URL rewrite (e.g. /index.html -> /, /test.php -> /test)
• Modern looking and responsive error documents

Configuration

See docs/example.conf for more details.

Global directives

• certificate - path to SSL certificate (or certificate chain)
• private_key - path to SSL private key
• geoip_dir (optional) - path to a directory containing GeoIP databases
• dns_server (optional) - address of a DNS server

Virtual host configuration

• [<host>] - begins section for the virtual host <host>
• Local
  • webroot - path to the root directory
  • dir_mode - specify the behaviour for directories without an index.html or index.php
    • forbidden - the server will respond with 403 Forbidden
    • info - try passing path info to an upper .php file.
    • list - list contents of directory (not implemented yet)
• Reverse proxy
  • hostname - hostname of server to be reverse proxy of
  • port - port to be used
  • http - use HTTP to communicate with server
  • https - use HTTPS to communicate with server