CassiniEx Web Server

Introducing the new CassiniEx Web Server!

Based on Cassini Personal Web Server, a Shared Source License project from Microsoft Corporation.

CassiniEx is an enhanced version of the Cassini Personal Web Server developed by Microsoft.

Features

Run multiple web sites and applications in a single instance of CassiniEx
Each ApplicationHost is loaded only on demand
CassiniEx loads in system tray
Supports multiple host headers and ports per web site
Supports multiple virtual folders
Each web site has a log file in W3C extended log file format
Each web site can allow or deny remote connections
Custom default documents per virtual folder
Now supports Keep-Alive connections
Support If-Modified-Since and Last-Modified headers to reduce bandwidth
Automatically unload AppDomain when Idle for user-defined time
Each virtual folder can have custom deny/allow extensions
Configuration changes are automatically loaded without having to restart the server

Update: 2004-04-02

CassiniEx has a new configuation model... again! Sorry for the hassle, but I promise that it is well worth it. CassiniEx is now configured more like IIS. You can now create multiple Web Sites. Each web site can have zero or more Web Apps. Log files and Bindings are set at the Web Site level. You can now create a web site without any web applications at all. This web site will simply serve up static files.

Some planned features are:

Install as Windows Service
GZip compression and Chunked-Transfer encoding
Support for Web Application Archives (similar to Java WARs) which are zipped web apps that can be dropped into a folder and automatically configured and started
And much more..

As a preview of things to come, here is a screenshot of the new CassiniEx Management Console.

Coming Soon!

This program is still a work in progress. Please feel free to send any comments and suggestions.

Thanks for trying it out.

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Download CassiniEx Version 0.94.402 (2004-04-02)

By Kiliman kiliman@systemex.net