README.md

Sesimos – Secure, simple, modern web server

Features

• Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
• TLS Server Name Inspection (SNI)
• Serving local files via HTTP and HTTPS
  • File compression (gzip, Brotli)
  • Disk cache for compressed files
• Reverse proxy for other HTTP and HTTPS servers
  • Transparent WebSocket reverse proxy
• FastCGI support (e.g. PHP-FPM)
  • Automatic path info detection (e.g. /my/file/extra/path -> script: /my/file.php, path info: extra/path)
• Support for MaxMind's GeoIP Database
• Optional DNS reverse lookup for connecting hosts
• Automatic URL rewrite (e.g. /index.html -> /, /test.php -> /test)
• Modern looking and responsive error documents

Configuration

See doc/example.conf for more details.

Global directives

• geoip_dir (optional) - path to a directory containing GeoIP databases

Configuration

• [cert <cert-name>] - begins section for a certificate
  • certificate - path to SSL certificate (or certificate chain)
  • private_key - path to SSL private key
• [host <host>] - begins section for the virtual host <host>
  • cert - the name of the certificate to use
  • Local
    • webroot - path to the root directory
    • dir_mode - specify the behaviour for directories without an index.html or index.php
      • forbidden - the server will respond with 403 Forbidden
      • info - try passing path info to an upper .php file.
      • list - list contents of directory (not implemented yet)
  • Reverse proxy
    • hostname - hostname of server to be reverse proxy of
    • port - port to be used
    • http - use HTTP to communicate with server
    • https - use HTTPS to communicate with server