monkey web server framework

Monkey is a lightweight and powerful web server for GNU/Linux.

It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption, the perfect solution for embedded devices. Made for ARM, x86 and x64.

Google Summer of Code 2013

Monkey is an official mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013. For more details about our application proposal, ideas and student guidelines please refer to our GSoC Section




Latest release: v1.1.1 / codename Monkey Summer on Saturday, Aug 18th 2012

Monkey project team, is proud to announce the availability of our major release Monkey HTTP Daemon v1.1.1.

For more details about the release, please refer to the official announcement or go directly to the downloads section


Benchmarks

The Monkey team is doing different of benchmarks of the server in different platforms against different web servers, please check the list of Benchmarks done at the moment:

Start Monkey in less than 30 seconds

Make sure your are in a Linux box running a Kernel version >= 2.6.29, if you are set, you can start with the following commands as normal user

$ wget http://monkey-project.com/releases/1.1/monkey-1.1.1.tar.gz
$ tar zxfv monkey-1.1.1.tar.gz
$ cd monkey-1.1.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ bin/monkey
Now point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:2001