Araneida: a free CL web server

Araneida is a small extensible CL-based web server, designed to sit behind a proxying Apache but also capable of being run standalone.

Prerequisites

• SBCL. Probably also works with CMUCL/db-sockets with only fairly minor tweaking
• SBCL contrib packages: asdf, sb-bsd-sockets
• Other ASDF packages from cCLan: net-telent-date

News

See the NEWS file

Features/non-features

• Free - BSD-sans-advertising licence, but for the modification that I'm not the Regents of the University of California
• Does not use multiple threads. Hooks into the SBCL/CMUCL event loop so for many purposes it behaves as though it does.
• Designed to sit behind a caching proxy; can write appropriate bits of Apache config. If this bothers you, pretend that mod_proxy is a typo for mod_araneida. This includes playing nicely with SSL
• Understands HTTP/1.1 Host: header for multiple host support
• All content is dynamic and created by calling user-defined handler functions (there is a handler in there already that outputs files, if you need it)
• Cheesy HTML-from-sexpr generation function makes balancing </td> tags suddenly trivially simple (if tending to generate lots of short-lived garbage)

Documentation

• Examples
• FAQ
• Reference documentation
• Care and feeding of cookies
• Utilities to make working with Araneida more rewarding

Where to get it

• Via your favourite cCLan mirror

Linking

Please don't link to pages on this site other than the one you're looking at now: the documentation is in need of some restructuring and its URLs will change.

Good luck!