- AOLserver
Infobox_Software| name = AOLserver
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developer =AOL
latest_release_version = 4.5.0
latest_release_date = June 27, 2006
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operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =HTTP web server
license =AOLserver Public License
website = [http://www.aolserver.com/ www.aolserver.com]AOLserver is
America Online 'sopen source web server . AOLserver ismultithreaded,Tcl -enabled, and used for large scale, dynamic web sites.AOLserver is distributed under the
Mozilla Public License [ [http://aolserver.com/license/ AOLserver's license page] and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/aolserver/ AOLserver's]SourceForge page] .AOLserver was originally developed by
NaviSoft under the name "NaviServer", but changed names whenAOL bought the company in 1995.Philip Greenspun convinced America Online to open-source the program in 1999. [ [http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.html Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 ] ]AOLserver was the first HTTP server program to combine
multithreading , a built-in scripting language, and the pooling of persistent database connections. For database-backed Web sites, this enabled performance improvements of 100X compared to the standard practices at the time of CGI scripts that opened fresh database connections on every page load. Eventually other HTTP server programs were able to achieve similar performance with a similar architecture, but AOLserver was several years ahead of the competition.AOLserver is a key component in the Open Architecture Community System (
OpenACS ) which is an advanced open-source toolkit for developing web applications.In Sept 2007, a port of AOLserver for the
iPhone was made available. [ [http://velocipeek.com/2007/09/17/iphone-aolserver-and-tcl-ports/ VelociPeek - Eric’s weblog on tech » iPhone AOLserver and Tcl Ports - part 1 ] ]NaviServer (also hosted on SourceForge) is a fork of AOLserver.References
See also
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Comparison of web servers External links
* [http://www.aolserver.com/ www.aolserver.com]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/aolserver/ SourceForge Project: AOLserver]
* [http://pywx.idyll.org/ Python for AOLserver]
* [http://panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/AOLserver_Wiki AOLserver Wiki]
** [http://panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/How_to_set_up_PHP_under_AOLserver PHP on AOLserver]
* [http://aolserver.com/license/ AOLserver Public License]
* [http://naviserver.sourceforge.net/ NaviServer Fork Project Homepage]
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