Hiawatha
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Hiawatha, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Hiawatha's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Hiawatha webserver | Free | GPL version 2 |
The facts
Each one read from Hiawatha's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Access to websites can be controlled with Basic or Digest HTTP authentication or by IP address.checked 8 Oct 2026
- CGI and FastCGI
- Hiawatha supports CGI scripts and FastCGI, including load balancing, and includes a CGI wrapper for security.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- The maker says Hiawatha's lightweight design makes it suitable for older hardware or embedded systems.checked 8 Oct 2026
- License
- The webserver is distributed under GNU GPL version 2.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- Hiawatha Monitor provides one interface to track the performance and security of Hiawatha webservers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Monitoring requirements
- Hiawatha Monitor is a PHP web application with a MySQL backend and requires cron to periodically download statistics.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Performance
- Features for speeding up websites include internal caching, keep-alive connections, request pipelining and GZip Content-Encoding.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Protocols
- Hiawatha supports HTTP/2 and IPv6.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Hiawatha is an advanced, secure webserver designed for Unix.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Reverse proxy
- Its built-in reverse proxy can integrate other web solutions or act as an application firewall in front of other webservers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- It supports TLS via mbed TLS and offers protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF/XSRF and DoS attacks.checked 8 Oct 2026
- URL rewriting
- The URL toolkit can rewrite URLs, and predefined rules are available for popular PHP CMS applications.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2002checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free monitor
- The Hiawatha Monitor is free.checked 8 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The download page lists a MacOS X package, Debian/Ubuntu repository options, and FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports; it says the Windows package is compiled via Cygwin and is not recommended for production unless tested.checked 8 Oct 2026
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