Hiawatha is a lightweight and secure web server with support for HTTP, HTTPS, CGI and FastCGI. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Hiawatha on the latest version of MXLinux.
Before installing Hiawatha, you will need to have root access to your MXLinux system. You can use the command sudo -i to switch to root user.
Hiawatha requires a few dependencies to be installed in order to run properly. We will use the package manager "apt-get" to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
Now that the dependencies are installed, we can proceed to download and install Hiawatha.
cd /tmp
wget https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/files/hiawatha-10.9.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf hiawatha-10.9.0.tar.gz
cd hiawatha-10.9.0
sudo make install
After installing Hiawatha, we need to configure it.
sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf
In the configuration file, we need to set the following values:
Binding {
Port = 80
}
WebsiteRoot = /var/www/hiawatha
This configuration sets the port to 80 and sets the website root to /var/www/hiawatha. You can change these values to match your preference.
We can start Hiawatha by running the following command:
sudo service hiawatha start
And that's it! Hiawatha is now installed and running on your MXLinux system.
In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install Hiawatha on the latest version of MXLinux. We installed the dependencies, downloaded and installed Hiawatha, configured it, and started the service. You can now use Hiawatha to serve your web applications or websites.
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