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DESCRIPTION
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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6:
- Adds support for XSSI and on-the-fly HTTP compression.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.
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| Abyss Web Server User Reviews (15 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 11 2008 |
CENOCRE Been using Abyss for years now in a commercial web hosting environment and it has been PERFECTLY stable. Things that take Apache down are barely a blip for Abyss. 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. Simplicity (in a different universe) Login and consistency of interface and configuring Tolerance of errors in configuration User choice - can put it on any volume and quickly migrate it to another server 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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 | Sep 20 2007 |
ORION MK. V Brilliantly simple for during quick servings for clients as a basic test server, and I can't complain about FREE. Very robust non-Apache offering.
(Version 2.5) | |
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| Jul 11 2005 |
MAKOS I was looking for a simple and powerful solution to built an intranet web server. I find it ! 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!)
(Version 2.0.6) | |
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| Aug 5 2005 |
MAKOS Server is running without freeze since 8 weeks now ! FIVE STARS for stability !
(Version 2.0.6) | |
| Jan 21 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Why use it you ask? Because its only 211k - Dig out all your old Macs and get them serving your sites in under 15 minutes. Its rock solid and loads pages super quick. http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/opinions.html Give it a try its Free and you will not look back. Would like to see support for MYSQL or Excel built in.
(Version 1.2.2) | |
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| Jan 21 2004 |
LOQUESEA if all your old Macs can run OS X 10.2 or later, how nice for you. mine sure can't.
(Version 1.2.2) | |
| Mar 20 2009 |
CENOCRE Update to my previous review. 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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| Jan 10 2007 |
INDIGOIMAC Excellent as always, Pre-Compiled PHP 5.2 is also appreciated! Easiest to manage and configure server on any platform, though not as robust as Apache, it's still my personal favorite.
(Version 2.4) | |
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| Mar 11 2005 |
.. Amazing
(Version 2.0.0.20) | |
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| Aug 4 2004 |
TOM HUTCHINSON For creating a simple HTTP server, this is a great solution. EASY setup, loads pages fast, and it's free. I'm impressed. If you don't need some advanced features such as mySQL, this is the server for you.
(Version 1.2.2) | |
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 | Jun 21 2005 |
APRELIUM SUPPORT Abyss Web Server supports any database provided that your scripting language has support for it (see http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/faq.html#A3-2 ). There is also a precompiled PHP package for MacOS X with MySQL support ( http://www.aprelium.com/downloads ). Please read the FAQ pages and the Forum message for more information about the supported features and technologies.
(Version 2.0.6) | |
| Jan 20 2004 |
GOSTCODER If they had only put their efforts into making a freeware Apache Configuration utility... Really, they would of had something cool then.
(Version 1.2.2) | |
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