Weblog

Today, I've released a new major version of the Hiawatha webserver. The biggest change in v10.0 is a different way of handling Directory sections. The path is now relative to the document root of a website.

VirtualHost {
    Hostname = www.example.com
    ...
    UseDirectory = static, files
}

Directory {
    DirectoryID = static
    Path = /css, /fonts, /images, /js
    ExpirePeriod = 2 weeks
}

Directory {
    DirectoryID = files
    Path = /files
    ShowIndex = yes
}

Another new feature is the support for GZip content encoding, which makes the UseGZfile obsolete. The rest of the new features can be found in the ChangeLog.