Hiawatha vs Lighttpd

Hiawatha

Hiawatha is an open source webserver with security, easy to use and lightweight as the three key features. Hiawatha supports among others (Fast)CGI, IPv6, URL rewriting and reverse proxy. It has security features no other webserver has, like blocking SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks and exploit attempts. The built-in monitoring tool makes it perfect for large scale deployments. (by hsleisink)

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Lighttpd

lighttpd2 on github for easier collaboration - main repo still on lighttpd.net (by lighttpd)

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redmine.lighttpd.net

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Hiawatha		Lighttpd
	Project
-	Mentions	2
237	Stars	468
-	Growth	1.5%
2.4	Activity	7.8
almost 6 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	C
GPL2	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Hiawatha

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hiawatha. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Hiawatha yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Lighttpd

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lighttpd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-08.

Caffè Italia * 08/09/22
6 projects | /r/italy | 8 Sep 2022

ma sei serio?
What are some programs that you would not write in C instead of another higher-level language?
9 projects | /r/cprogramming | 29 Jan 2022

The most installed operating system is written in C. The one true text editor and it's unwanted spawn are both written in C. All of the popular web servers like Apache HTTPd, ngnix and lighthtttpd are all written in C. The most popular scripting language and the most hated scripting language according to Reddit are both written in C. GNOME UI is written entirely in C. I can go on and on..

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hiawatha and Lighttpd you can also consider the following projects:

Nginx - An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

Apache - Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org

HAProxy - HAProxy documentation

uWSGI - uWSGI application server container

Cherokee - Cherokee Web Server

Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache

envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy