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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

BOA web server

Boa is a tiny web server that also offers extremely high performance. It is specifically designed to run on UNIX-like systems, which includes Linux, as well as the *BSD systems. To get all the legal stuff out of the way, Boa is available for free and is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL). The source code for Boa, as well as documentation, can be found at http://www.boa.org/.

The following point taken from the Boa web site :

“ Boa currently seems to be the favorite web server in the embedded crowd, and embedded Linux, despite all the marketing hype, really is a big deal. Supposedly, an older version of Boa, v0.92q, runs in 32K address space on m68k, like used in uClinux. ”
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2 comments:

  1. Vikas SharmaFebruary 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM

    The boa web server.
    Boa is a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike traditional web servers, it does not fork for each incoming connection, nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple connections. It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP connections, and forks only for CGI programs (which must be separate processes), automatic directory generation, and automatic file gunzipping. The primary design goals of Boa are speed and security. Security, in the sense of "can't be subverted by a malicious user," not "fine grained access control and encrypted communications". Boa is not intended as a feature-packed server.

    Available rpmbuild rebuild options : --with : debug access poll --without : gzip sendfile

    Website: http://www.boa.org/
    License: GPL

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  2. Vikas SharmaFebruary 11, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    Setting up Boa

    Because Boa is so compact, it is also very easy to install and configure. The details are on the Boa web site, but if you are familiar with installing typical tarballs, Boa will be no surprise. The basic steps are:
    Download the software.
    Unpack using tar xvzf.
    Optionally edit the defines.h file in the src directory to change the default SERVER_ROOT.
    This isn't mandatory; you can also specify the server root on the command line when you start Boa.
    ./configure
    make
    make install

    Edit the configuration file, boa.conf, to set up your local configuration.
    Default listening port is 80, can be changed in boa.conf

    start its services
    service boa start/stop/restart

    OR
    yum install boa
    start its services
    service boa start/stop/restart

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