HTTP Server: HTTP server written in pure PHP

                  astahttpd v0.1 beta3 README file
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What is astahttpd?
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astahttpd is free and open source web server written using 100% pure PHP.
Currently astahttpd v0.1-beta3 support these following features:

   - GET, POST, and HEAD methods
   - Alias directories
   - Modular Architecture *
   - CGI Processing (mod_cgi & mod_cgi_header)
   - Virtual Host (mod_vhost)
   - URL Rewrite (mod_rewrite)
   - Basic Authentication  (mod_auth_basic) *
   - Digest Authentication (mod_auth_digest) *
   - Log written to file (Access & Rewrite) 
   - Bandwidth Limit (mod_bandwidth) *
   - Live server status (mod_status) *
   - Content encoding using gzip or deflate (mod_encoding)
   
Note: * new in this release

You need at least PHP 5.2.3 to run astahttpd since it implements OOP style
that only available on PHP5.

astahttpd should not be used in production use due many performance and
security issue that has not been fixed yet.

The Idea
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The idea behind the making of astahttpd is simple, I just need simple
web server for astasms (an sms server written also in pure PHP, I will
released soon :) ). Since astasms front-end is web based, so it needs a web
server. I don't want to use Apache or other mainstream web server player, 
because i think it's too bloated if used only for supporting front-end.

After tried few simple httpd server written by somebody else, but most of them
just make me more frustating. Many of them is really hard to install and 
configure and the worst, i even cannot compile them :( .

So I started to make my own web server using my favorite language PHP. The first
thnik I need to decide is whether to use PHP4 or PHP5. I think OOP in PHP5 
is very good and make software maintanance more easy. So I decided to use PHP5.

Current Version
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Current version that shipped with this distribution is astahttpd v0.1-beta3

Latest Release
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You can obtain astahttpd latest release on project homepage at
http://astahttpd.sourceforge.net/

Installation
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Please see file called INSTALL

License
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astahttpd is licensed under GNU GPL 3, for more information see file
called LICENSE

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