Welcome To Xitami

Welcome to the Xitami home page. All the Xitami documentation is available here. To download the latest version go to the Quick Download Corner. Please take a minute to read the Xitami license agreement.

If you're a software developer, visit the iMatix home page and take a look at our other products. Libero, SFL, and SMT are the unique software tools that make Xitami fast and portable. You can use them freely in any project.

What Is Xitami?

Xitami ['shi-tami'] is a fast, portable multithreaded web server.
It's "thinware": tiny, rapid, simple, and robust.
It is ideal for high-volume intranets.
It is scalable and efficient, especially at high loads.
It is free software, running on many different platforms.
It is based on the innovative SMT multithreading kernel from iMatix.
It is distributed with sources according to the Xitami license agreement. Please read this.

Why Yet Another Web Server?

Xitami faster than most free or commercial web servers.
We made it portable: Xitami runs on all your systems from Windows to OS/2 to UNIX.
We made it scalable: it is efficient at the high volumes that choke most other web servers.
We made it open: you can integrate Xitami technology into your own software applications and servers.

Is Xitami A Real Web Server?

Yes, Xitami is a real, industrial-strength web server.
Xitami supports the main HTTP operations: GET, POST, HEADER. It also supports virtual hosts, CGI, clickable image maps, CERN/NCSA logging, log cycling, protected directories, direct execution of Perl programs, and extensive configuration options.
It does not support secure sockets.

Why is Xitami Different?

Unlike Apache, NCSA httpd, Netscape's Enterprise Server, or IIS, Xitami handles all connections (except CGI) within a single process, without creating child processes or multiple threads. The cost of a connection ('hit') is extremely low.
Xitami was built from the ground-up as a high-performance web server engine. It pumps data onto the network at top speed, typically twice as fast as any other web server. This means that it can serve large files quickly, while handling many simulaneous hits.
Xitami is as economical with disk space and memory as with CPU time. Its tiny footprint means you can easily include it in web demos, and put it onto small Windows systems.
Xitami installs in minutes, even seconds, yet provides rich configuration options including complete virtual hosting.
Xitami is totally portable, running on any system with ANSI C and a standard socket library. You can download the sources and tools we use, and reuse these in any project, including building your own high-performance internet servers.

Xitami represents the new generation of software from iMatix: fast, scalable, efficient, and portable.

Xitami Features

Full HTTP/1.0 server
Pretty complete FTP server*
Completely free under GNU-ish license agreement
Multiplatform: UNIX, OpenVMS, Win 3.x, Win 95, Win NT, OS/2
Fast, stable, multithreaded design
Multihomed hosts based on IP address
HTTP/1.1-style multiple virtual hosts
Browser-based configuration and management*
CGI/1.1 compatible*
Direct support for CGI scripting languages*
Supports Java applets
Single-process design
Install/uninstall wizards for Windows
User-defineable MIME types
Allows multiple document roots
Basic Authentication protocol
Tiny memory, disk, and CPU footprint
Installs and runs in minutes
HTTP/1.0 persistent 'keep-alive' connections
CERN/NCSA-compatible logging files
Server-side includes (SSI)
Server-side image maps
Uses less CPU than Solitaire
Automatic log-file cycling
On-the-fly server reconfiguration
On-the-fly user + password management
Customisable error messages
Customisable CGI interface*
Restrict web site to specific IP addresses
Automatic HTTP port fall-back
Plug-in WSX protocol for web server extensions

Functions indicated by '*' are not included in the 16-bit Windows 3.x version due to space and time limitations. Sorry.

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