Caudium: The Webserver

Caudium is the name of a GPL-ed (free for commercial and personal use) web server written in Pike and in C. It is originally based on the Roxen Challenger 1.3 code base.
It is an attractive alternative to servers like Apache, Netscape® and Zeus® due to its strength in dynamic page and data generation, modularity and more.
The Caudium Project runs also an IRC network, has created a GPL webmail called CAMAS and has an ever-growing community of developers and users worldwide.

We have created a Frappr group to learn where our users live. Why not spare a moment of your time and add yourself as well?

Performance: Caudium is a non-forking monolithic web server. Most web servers, like Apache 1.3, fork processes to keep up with demand, creating a less scalable solution when a sudden burst of traffic hits your web site.
An optional multi-threaded mode further increases performance especially when dealing with dynamically generated pages.
Templating: Caudium allows you to create site templates without much ado. You have several tools to aid you in that process:
- RXML - a HTML-like markup language.
- macros that can be defined either by the site designer or a programmer
- possibility to embed Pike code in your page to perform more complicated tasks or computations
Caudium also has a feature which is unique among the web servers - the supports database. Supports is a mechanism through which you are able to detect what features are or are not supported by the browser viewing your page. It allows one to create sites which use no JavaScript for browser detection. The visitor is handed clean and compact HTML pages not cluttered with JavaScript code. No need to mention that this feature makes the site far more browser-independent and flexible than when JavaScript is used to perform the tasks mentioned above.
Ease of use: All configuration actions can be performed through the web-based configuration interface: no more commands in the shell to type, no files to edit, no typos in the config file.
You'll use it to load new modules, check the status of your server or to create SSL keys.
Flexibility: You can write new tags and modules, easily extend Caudium using Pike or C and take advantage of the configuration interface.
Dynamic content can be generated with RXML, PHP or CGIs thus migration from other servers like Apache is very easy.
Platform independance: Caudium is shipped with Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD ports and runs on many other Unix-like systems (Any Linux®-based, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris®, AIX®, Darwin/MacOS X®)
It is written in Pike and C.

According to Netcraft and SecuritySpace survey, here is a graph of the number of Caudium Servers in the world:

Want to see how this graph was created?

Of course! As with most open source projects, help is always wanted. We need people to write documentation, programmers (mainly, but not limited to, C and/or Pike), testers, web designers and more.

We have created our own IRC network. You can join us on channel #caudium @ irc.caudium.net . If you see a channel operator, chances are that he is is a caudium group member. The IRC-chat might be useful to ask a quick question or want to talk about something that requires more interactivity than mail. See you there!

The Caudium Group web sites and services are handled by a French non-profit organization: Association Kazar. You can help them to pay bandwidth, machines, domains and hosting services by donating some money using PayPal.

The Caudium Project is pleased to announce the release of Caudium 1.4.14, the latest release in the 1.4 Stable series. Primarily a stability and bugfix release, this release includes a number of fixes for problems reported by users of 1.4.12. Pike version 7.6.112 is recommended for use with this release.

Visit the Download Page to view the Change Log and access the source.

The Caudium Project is pleased to announce the release of Caudium 1.4.12, the latest release in the 1.4 Stable series. Primarily a stability and bugfix release, users should experience greatly enhanced stability over previous releases when also using Pike 7.6.112 or higher.

Visit the Download Page to view the Change Log and access the source.

Caudium has a new maintainer, Bill Welliver will take the maintainership over Xavier Beaudouin since today. Thanks to Xavier and welcome to Bill !

Thanks to a hardrive failure, caudium services has being down for several days. Now services is going to be back and still need to be updated completly.
CVS Web addresses a changed to a new addresses.

After more than one year, we are proud of releasing Caudium 1.4.8. This version fixes numerous bugs and problems within the latest release and have some backports from developpment branch. Thanks to all Caudium developpers for the work done in this release.
You can find tarballs and change logs on the Caudium 1.4.8 download page

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