This is Hydra, a modification of Boa, which supports multiple threads of execution. Boa is a high performance web server for Unix-alike computers, covered by the Gnu General Public License. This modification is based on Boa version 0.94.13, and is currently of alpha quality.
Why Hydra? Well, Lernean Hydra was a nine headed, monstrous serpent in Greek Mythology, and seemed to resemble fine a multi-threaded Boa. An interesting feature of Hydra is that a head, when cut off was replaced by two others. This was not duplicated in Hydra's threads!
***** Configure time parameters
--disable-ssl: Disables SSL and TLS support. You must have the gnutls library
for SSL to work.
--disable-smp: Disables all of the thread stuff. Hydra will function just like
Boa.
--disable-hic: HIC is a special hydra thread that handles scripting languages
such as PHP. Use this parameter to disable this feature.
***** Development
A mailing list for Hydra is available at http://lists.hellug.gr/mailman/listinfo/hydra-dev
Hydra has a public cvs repository. To checkout, use the following cvs commands,
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.hellug.gr:/var/cvs/hydra login
--- password is 'anonymous' ---
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.hellug.gr:/var/cvs/hydra co hydra
About Boa:
Boa was created in 1991 by Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>. It is being maintained and enhanced by Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@boa.org> and Jon Nelson <jnelson@boa.org>.
For more information (including installation instructions) examine the file docs/boa.txt or docs/boa.dvi, point your web browser to docs/boa.html, or visit the Boa homepage at
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