Monkey Server

Monkey is a fast and lightweight Web Server for Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption, the perfect solution for Embedded Linux and high end production environments.

Besides the common features as HTTP server, it expose a flexible C API which aims to behave as a fully HTTP development framework, so it can be extended as desired through the plugins interface.

For more details please refer to the official documentation.

HTTP/1.1 Compliant

Hybrid Networking Model: Asynchronous mode + fixed Threads

Indented configuration style

Versatile plugin subsystem / API

x86, x86_64 & ARM compatible

More features:

SSL

IPv6

Basic Auth

Log writer

Security

Directory Listing

CGI

FastCGI

Much more!

Embeddable as a shared library

When building Monkey it needs:

CMake >= 2.8

Glibc >= 2.5

GNU C Compiler >= 3.2

Monkey requires the following components on runtime:

Linux Kernel >= 2.6.32

Pthreads support

If you are interested into use Monkey as a base platform build scalable web services, we recommend you check our Duda I/O project made for that purpose.

Monkey is an open organization so we want to hear about you, we continue growing and you can be part of it!, you can reach us at:

Mailing list: http://lists.monkey-project.com

IRC: irc.freenode.net #monkey

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/monkeywebserver

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Monkey-HTTP-Daemon-3211216

Freecode: http://freecode.com/projects/monkey (R.I.P)

If you want to get involved, please also refer to our Contributing guidelines.

Eduardo Silva eduardo@monkey.io