The sys admin's daily grind – H2O
Whiz Kid

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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