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Sesimos Secure, simple, modern web server
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## Features
* Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
* TLS Server Name Inspection (SNI)
* Serving local files via HTTP and HTTPS
* File compression ([gzip](https://www.gzip.org/), [Brotli](https://www.brotli.org/))
* Disk cache for compressed files
* Reverse proxy for other HTTP and HTTPS servers
* Transparent WebSocket reverse proxy
* FastCGI support (e.g. [PHP-FPM](https://php-fpm.org/))
* Automatic path info detection (e.g. `/my/file/extra/path` -> script: `/my/file.php`, path info: `extra/path`)
* Support for [MaxMind's GeoIP Database](https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-services-and-databases)
* 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](docs/example.conf) for more details.
### Global directives
* `geoip_dir` (optional) - path to a directory containing GeoIP databases
* `dns_server` (optional) - address of a DNS server
### Configuration
* `[cert <cert-name>]` - begins section for a certificate
* `certificate` - path to SSL certificate (or certificate chain)
* `private_key` - path to SSL private key
* `[host <host>]` - begins section for the virtual host `<host>`
* `cert` - the name of the certificate to use
* 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