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Abyss Web Server X1 is a free personal web server. Despite its small footprint, it supports secure SSL connections (HTTPS), download resuming, caching negotiation, logging, CGI/FastCGI, ISAPI extensions, Server Side Includes (SSI), custom error pages, password protection, URL rewriting, IP address control, aliases, custom MIME types, index files, custom directory listings, anti-leeching, and bandwidth throttling. It features also an automatic anti-hacking system and an intuitive multilingual remote web management interface.
With Abyss Web Server X1, hosting your site and your
With Abyss Web Server X1, hosting your site and your
What's New
Version 2.7:
- Native support for 64-bit platforms on Windows and Linux;
- Accurate control over the FastCGI processes creation rate and use through a new set of parameters. These will help control the load of heavy Web sites and limit the processing resources for a particular Web application;
- Updated ASP.NET connector for the Windows version with support for legacy ASP.NET 1.1 applications as well as 32-bit and 64-bit editions of ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5, and 4.0;
- Support for AJAX and RIA/Silverlight ASP.NET frameworks;
- Ability to preload FastCGI interpreters or applications as well as the ASP.NET framework for faster first request processing; Updated SSL/TLS engine;
- Updated documentation.
- The new releases also include several internal enhancements and fix the problems that have been reported with previous versions.
Version 2.7:
- Native support for 64-bit platforms on Windows and Linux;
- Accurate control over the FastCGI processes creation rate and use through a new set of parameters. These will help control the load of heavy Web sites and limit the processing resources for a particular Web application;
- Updated ASP.NET connector for the Windows version with support for legacy ASP.NET 1.1 applications as more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.
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Abyss Web Server X1 is a free personal web server. Despite its small footprint, it supports secure SSL connections (HTTPS), download resuming, caching negotiation, logging, CGI/FastCGI, ISAPI extensions, Server Side Includes (SSI), custom error pages, password protection, URL rewriting, IP address control, aliases, custom MIME types, index files, custom directory listings, anti-leeching, and bandwidth throttling. It features also an automatic anti-hacking system and an intuitive multilingual remote web management interface.
With Abyss Web Server X1, hosting your site and your PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby on Rails Web applications is a matter of a few minutes.
With Abyss Web Server X1, hosting your site and your PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby on Rails Web applications is a matter of a few minutes.
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DoctorFix reviewed on 21 Jan 2012
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Cowicide reviewed on 20 Aug 2011
What can I say. On both Mac and Windows it's solid. I've never had it crash or interfere with anything else on any computer.
As a testing server, I've found it better than MAMP and it doesn't download huge amount of crap like MAMP does and they aren't pushy (like the MAMP people are) about getting the paid version.
I try out MAMP every now and then, shrug... and go back to Abyss. The interface isn't perfect and there's a lot of areas that are not going to be self-explainatory, but hey, it's a web server. If you don't have any clue about how to run them, you probably shouldn't be opening up your computer/server/whatever to the world anyway.
That said, never had a hacking issue with it either, but then again I practice lots of safeguards I won't get into here.
Fantastic server. Updated fairly regularly. Works great as a PHP testing server, IMHO, as well.
I regretfully have to take off a star for not being 64bit on Mac yet. Been kind of a long time.
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The tech support for Abyss is great!! With the very reasonably priced Pro version, you get priority support. They actually read your questions and give reasonable and quick answers even for complex issues.
After wasting years of my life with open source products such as Apache where you search in forum after forum for months only to get numerous stupid and wrong answers especially when dealing with utterly absurd mod_rewrite and, after dealing with the big companies such as Adobe, Epson, Apple, Micro$oft, Comcast, etc where the techs often times know little and deny obvious bugs, dealing with Aprelium is a breath of fresh air.
I now recommend dealing mostly with small companies that make great products such as ProVue (makes the great database Panorama), HindSight (photo business software), Aprelium, etc. You often get MUCH better products, better support, and surprisingly longer life products. ProVue made the second piece of software for the Mac and it is still around.
Buy small and buy quality as it will save time and money (even over the "free" products). As an added bonus you can often get features added to the products based on your own suggestions!
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cenocre reviewed on 11 Oct 2008
We are about move all of our servers from Apache to Abyss. Apache is like Windoze - popular, but hard to figure out why as it is so bloated and awkward.
Abyss beats Apache in:
Speed
Simplicity (in a different universe)
Ease of configuration
Login and consistency of interface and configuring
Speed of setup
Tolerance of errors in configuration
User choice - can put it on any volume and quickly migrate it to another server
Stability
Support - quick and generally accurate answers from a single source
Cost - Yes, Apache is supposedly free and Abyss costs a little for the , but if you measure cost of the time involved with each product, you will save LOTS of time with Abyss.
Abyss is not perfect, but the company Aprelium listens to users and continues to improve the product. There a just a few features that are missing. And, while their documentation covers just about everything and is VERY accessible, it definitely could use some help as it makes far too many assumptions about the user's knowledge. It needs better BASIC explanations as it sometimes states the obvious while missing the not obvious aspects of a feature and the reason for the feature.
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Open the HTML document and click on:
"click here to read the installation/upgrade instructions"
Then, click on:
"Home"
That's what I did and there is certainly a user's manual that goes into some detail.
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Anonymous reviewed on 11 Jul 2005
Guys, you're rock !!!
Thanx for this free and great app.
(I put a 3 stars for stability, but maybe in few days i'll change my mind... i use it just for 1 days, but i'm sure it will get a 5... it runs on OSX!)
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FIVE STARS for stability !
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Anonymous reviewed on 14 Oct 2004
Just allow port 80 on your OS firewall / personal web sharing and then apply forwarding in your router for that port to the internal LAN IP of the hosting machines. Takes 30 secs.