nanoweb Modules

The configuration files of nanoweb reside in /etc/nanoweb/; there you'll find modules.conf containing lots of LoadModule directives registering extension modules to the server core. If you want to have another overview of supported features, have a look at the page with all available configuration directives.

core modules following modules are essential parts of nanoweb and thus must always be loaded:
mod_static	core	This module makes standard files from the docroot accessible to nanoweb through the internal "parser" interface.
mod_fb	core	FileBrowser. Without this module you wouldn't get those fancy directory listings, which is probably the most heavily used nanoweb extension.
mod_pfilters	core	Filters are an extension to the internal "parser" representation of all files and content served by nanoweb. If this module isn't loaded, you probably run into trouble with some other extensions.
mod_ac	core	The Access Control module allows to restrict access to the webserver to only some hosts, or to deny access only for some of them.
standard modules
mod_cgi	standard	CGI Parsing Module. You can register any script language interpreter (PHP, Perl, Python, AWK, Ruby, Shell, JavaScript, ...) with the ParseExt directive to let the according files be processed by this module.
mod_include	standard	Server Side Includes support (therefore formerly called mod_ssi)
mod_gzip	standard	GZIP Content Encoding support This module tries to compress all your files on the fly with the gzip encoding, which is understood by all recent browsers.
mod_status	standard	online server status reports
mod_load_limit	standard	Stops nanoweb from serving pages if the load average gets too high.
mod_mispell	standard	Mispelled URL correction support allows to select the correct file if a user request had some typos. A redirect or a notice can be send back.
mod_auth_simple	standard	authentication with user names and passwords given in one of the configuration files (.nwaccess files most probably)
mod_auth_htpasswd	optional	enables to use the authentication files from the apache webserver
mod_auth_nwauth	optional	Nanoweb authentication files look pretty much like the apache-style password-login files.
mod_auth_mysql	optional	This authentication module allows you to use an already existing database with a table of user/password pairs to restrict access to directories/areas of your webserver.
mod_auth_pgsql	optional	likewise for PostgreSQL
mod_auth_ldap	optional	Authentication information (login names and passwords) can also be accessed via LDAP using this module.
mod_auth_anydb	optional	This authentication module allows to use nearly any database, because it can utilize itself one of the database abstraction interfaces PEAR::DB, ADOdb or PHP dbx.
mod_auth_anonymous	optional	Allows ftp-like "anonymous login" authentication (a user must only submit its email address).
mod_proxy	optional	Proxy Server inside nanoweb. The Proxy server implemented by this module is primarily a caching one (but introduces many filtering mechanisms as well), which means that it can speed up http requests if all computers of your local network are configured to request pages through nanoweb/mod_proxy.
mod_dosevasive	optional	Prevents your server from going down due to attacks following the »Denial of Service« routine.
mod_multiviews	optional	MultiViews enables nanoweb to perform transparent content negotiation with or without support from the requesting browser.
mod_meta	optional	Reads .html files and makes the content of <META HTTP-EQUIV> tags available as usual http response headers (for use by other extension modules as well).
mod_fcgi	optional	FastCGI support.
mod_mysqllog	optional	Log is written into a MySQL database.
mod_stdlog	optional	Writes log to stdout (console).
mod_rewrite	optional	RewriteEngine (powerful URI to filename mapping) allows you to introduce a very flexible virtual directory layer.
various other goodies
mod_method_PUT	add-on	Adds support for the "PUT" request method, which is used by some clients to upload files (something like FTP over HTTP).
mod_method_TRACE	add-on	Enables Nanoweb to reply to requests with the HTTP "TRACE" request method, which can be used to echo the incoming HTTP request.
mod_method_handler	add-on	Allows to use CGI's to extend nanoweb with non-standard (user defined, experimental or other extension protocol) http request methods.
mod_access_rbl	add-on	RBL checks (see mail-abuse.org/rbl)
mod_emailprotect	add-on	Encodes <A HREF="mailto:..."> to hide email addresses from spambots. It does so by requiring to POST submit a <FORM> before a mail address gets clearly readable.
mod_access_referer	add-on	Deny linking from external sites
mod_bsp	add-on	Brainfuck Server Pages
mod_asis	add-on	Support for apache-style .asis files, which carry http headers before the actual content.
mod_lnk	optional	This module allows to use .lnk files to reference to another filesystem location or remote proto:// source. Additonally enables Win32 visual shortcut files to be used like symlinks.
mod_digest	add-on	Computes the MD5 checksum of transmitted static content if the ContentMD5 directive activates it.
mod_throttle	add-on	Allows to limit the download transfer speed to a fixed amount for all requests to the specified server, vhost or directory.
mod_libphp (useless)	add-on	guessworking internal-PHP-execution module
mod_worms	add-on	Module that warns you about attacks targeting to scripting bugs regularily found in IIS (no problem with nanoweb usually), but please refer to the README on mod_worms.
mod_fb2	add-on	Alternative filebrowser module (lists directory contents, when no "index.html" is there). This one is more icon centric than the recommended mod_fb.
mod_msff	add-on	Microsoft®-Free Fridays is a campaign against IE's »Smart-Tags®«.
mod_unzip	add-on	Allows serving files from inside ZIP archives (while still allowing the .zip to get downloaded as usual).
mod_gunzip	separate	Decompresses gzip encoded files on the fly if a client without support for transfer encodings requests such a pre-compressed file. This module so does the opposite of mod_gzip. It is believed that this method is faster than using mod_gzip because most browsers support gzip nowadays, and even if one didn't, decompression is much faster than compression.
mod_mysql_scheme	separate	This PHP extension module introduces a mysql:// access fopen handler. It is intended to be used with mod_lnk to allow access to "files" contained in a column of a MySQL database table.
mod_mp3	separate	Makes your mp3 collection available through a www interface.

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