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4.3 KiB
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228 lines
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>What is Caudium?</TITLE
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Caudium HOWTO"
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TITLE="Overview"
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TITLE="Overview"
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TITLE="Caudium vs Roxen: Why a fork?"
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>Caudium HOWTO</TH
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>Chapter 2. Overview</TD
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NAME="whatiscaudium">2.1. What is Caudium?</H1
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> Caudium is a Web server based on a fork of the <A
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HREF="http://www.roxen.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Roxen Challenger 1.3 WebServer</A
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>. Like Roxen, Caudium is written in <A
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HREF="http://pike.roxen.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Pike</A
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> with parts written in C for performance reasons. Pike is an interpreted language developed by Frederik Hübinette and Roxen Internet Software (RIS), a Swedish company which also created the Roxen Web Server. Caudium, like Pike, is distributed under the terms of the GPL license; several companies and people are involved in its development.
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> Caudium features include:
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> Single-process architecture.
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</P
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> Optional multi-threaded mode.
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</P
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> Backwards compatible with Roxen 1.3 on the API and RXML level.
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</P
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> Runs on many Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, Darwin/MacOS X).
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</P
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> Web based interface for easy administration.
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</P
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> Built in SSL capabilities. Enabling SSL on Caudium is as easy as filing a web form.
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</P
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> Written in Pike. Unlike most web servers, you don't need to learn C or C++ and those pesky details like memory allocation to enhance the server's capabilities.
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</P
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> Extensible with custom modules.
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</P
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> Powerful API.
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</P
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> Lots of standard modules distributed with the server, including an FTP server, the CAMAS web mail application, and the UltraLog log analysis tool. The <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"module"</SPAN
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> directory in Caudium 1.2 with CAMAS contains 192 code-only files. Most of the modules are in a single file.
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</P
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> RXML language. RXML stands for Roxen eXtensible Markup Language and is a set of tags, containers and simple programming language constructs that you put in your HTML source. Those tags and containers will be interpreted at run-time by Caudium. This allows non-programmers to do development.
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</P
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> XML language. Using Sablotron, Caudium can render XML pages processed with XSLT, DOM and XPath. You can find more information on Sablotron on <A
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HREF="http://www.gingerall.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.gingerall.com/</A
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>. It allows you to use pages designed for Apache mod_xslt in Caudium without modifications. Also the output of these generated pages can also be parsed by our RXML parser before sending the result to the client.
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>Prev</A
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>Home</A
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>Overview</TD
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>Caudium vs Roxen: Why a fork?</TD
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