The sys admin's daily grind – H2O

Whiz Kid

Article from Issue 181/2015

Author(s): Charly Kühnast

H2O is a web server that has been in development for some time but seems to be a baby compared with the long-serving Apache. Columnist Charly sets out to discover what the "new kid" is capable of.

Most popular distributions still do not offer packages for H2O [1], but it is not difficult to build the web server. In addition to the standard compilation tools, you also need cmake. The following command will help you pick up the code from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/h2o/h2o.git h2o

Now change to the h2o directory. As the build parameters, you can decide whether to trust OpenSSL for encrypted connections or to go with LibreSSL [2] instead. To use OpenSSL, type:

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