Free webserver software for mac

Roxen WebServer 4.5.241r4 will make you feel pleasant because it is an enterprise level web server software that is open source.

Due to a serious bug in MacOS X 10.0 you cannot run Roxen multi-threaded at this time. Apple is working on a solution.

Major Features:

1. Open source code.
2. A web-based interface for easy configuration and administration.
3. The highly regarded Roxen graphics support which can be used for dynamic generation of e.g. headers, images and charts.
4. Integrated MySQL database.
5. Server-side programming via RXML, Java, Perl, PHP, CGI scripts and more.
6. Strong encryption.
7. Modular architecture where server extensions can be loaded without shutting down the server process.
8. Platform-independent architecture makes custom modules portable with no extra effort.

Werkzeug is unicode aware and doesn't enforce a specific template engine, database adapter or anything else. Werkzeug doesn't even enforce a specific way of handling requests and will just leave all that up to the developer. Werkzeug is most useful for end user applications which should work on as many server environments as possible (such as blogs, wikis, bulletin boards, etc.).

Major Features:

1. Unicode awareness
2. Request and response objects
3. Various utility functions for dealing with HTTP headers such as Accept and Cache-Control headers.
4. Thread local objects with proper cleanup at request end
5. An interactive debugger
6. Wrapper around wsgiref that works around some of the limitations and bugs, adds threading and fork support for test environments and adds an automatic reloader.
7. A flexible URL routing system with REST support.
8. Fully WSGI compatible

Enhancements:

• Requires Python 2.4 now
• Fixed a bug in :class:`~contrib.IterIO`
• Added :class:`MIMEAccept` and :class:`CharsetAccept` that work like the regular :class:`Accept` but have extra special normalization for mimetypes and charsets and extra convenience methods.
• Switched the serving system from wsgiref to something homebrew.
• The :class:`Client` now supports cookies.
• Added the :mod:`~werkzeug.contrib.fixers` module with various fixes for webserver bugs and hosting setup side-effects.
• Added :mod:`werkzeug.contrib.wrappers`
• Added :func:`is_hop_by_hop_header`
• Added :func:`is_entity_header`
• Added :func:`remove_hop_by_hop_headers`
• Added :func:`pop_path_info`
• Added :func:`peek_path_info`
• Added :func:`wrap_file` and :class:`FileWrapper`
• Moved `LimitedStream` from the contrib package into the regular werkzeug one and changed the default behavior to raise exceptions rather than stopping without warning. The old class will stick in the module until 0.6.
• Implemented experimental multipart parser that replaces the old CGI hack.
• Added :func:`dump_options_header` and :func:`parse_options_header`
• Added :func:`quote_header_value` and :func:`unquote_header_value`
• :func:`url_encode` and :func:`url_decode` now accept a separator argument to switch between `&` and `;` as pair separator. The magic switch is no longer in place.
• All form data parsing functions as well as the :class:`BaseRequest` object have parameters (or attributes) to limit the number of incoming bytes (either totally or per field).
• Added :class:`LanguageAccept`
• Request objects are now enforced to be read only for all collections.
• Added many new collection classes, refactored collections in general.
• Test support was refactored, semi-undocumented `werkzeug.test.File` was replaced by :class:`werkzeug.FileStorage`.
• :class:`EnvironBuilder` was added and unifies the previous distinct :func:`create_environ`, :class:`Client` and :meth:`BaseRequest.from_values`. They all work the same now which is less confusing.
• Officially documented imports from the internal modules as undefined behavior. These modules were never exposed as public interfaces.
• Removed `FileStorage.__len__` which previously made the object falsy for browsers not sending the content length which all browsers do.
• :class:`SharedDataMiddleware` uses `wrap_file` now and has a configurable cache timeout.
• Added :class:`CommonRequestDescriptorsMixin`
• Added :attr:`CommonResponseDescriptorsMixin.mimetype_params`
• Added :mod:`werkzeug.contrib.lint`
• Added `passthrough_errors` to `run_simple`.
• Added `secure_filename`
• Added :func:`make_line_iter`
• :class:`MultiDict` copies now instead of revealing internal lists to the caller for `getlist` and iteration functions that return lists.
• Added :attr:`follow_redirect` to the :func:`open` of :class:`Client`.
• Added support for `extra_files` in :func:`~werkzeug.script.make_runserver`