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This is the homepage of WN.

Overview of the WN server

WN is a Web server which runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and is freely available at no cost for any use under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This introduction to the WN server is the first chapter of the WN User's Guide. It describes some of the many features unique to WN.

The WN User's Guide

This guide for WN server maintainers contains seventeen chapters and five appendices on all aspects of setting up and maintaining a sever.

Other Documentation for the WN server

Other documentation includes examples of forms, clickable images, authentication, CGI scripts and more.

Download the WN distribution

These are the C language source files for the server and utilities plus all the documentation. The files are tarred and compressed (gzip format).

http://hopf.math.northwestern.edu/wn-2.5.0.tar.gz, This is a new (12/08) version from Doug Hardie. He says, "Starting with release 2.5.0 WN now uses the IPv6 API. It will work with both IPv4 and/or IPv6. There have been some changes to the config.h file to support this API. Ports and IP addresses can now be entered as numeric or by name. Likewise the arguments for wn and wnssl have been changed."

http://hopf.math.northwestern.edu/wn-2.4.7.tar.gz, the old "stable" version.

WN and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

SSL is now integrated into the base WN distribution so it (together with OpenSSL) produces both the wnsd standalone daemon and an SSL enabled daemon wnsslsd. I am running an SSL enabled server now. You can try it here.

The wnssl-2.0 patches were produced originally by Elias Doumas. Recently they were revised and updated by Matthias Cramer. Elias's work was based on previous work of Tim Hudson for the NCSA httpd. Thanks go to all of them.

john@math.northwestern.edu
http://hopf.math.northwestern.edu/~john/


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