Latest version of Stunnix Advanced Web Server

New features in version 2.6

• Added support for creating ISO cd images to CDBuilder (new menu item in Tools menu).
• Names of mysql tables are now treated case-insensitive. This makes it unnecessary to update code to make it working on Linux (in case table names of wrong case were used in the code).
• Executable for MySQL version 4 has been updated to support OSX Leopard better (mysql version 5 didn't have any problems at all).
• Minor improvements in Windows support have been made.
• CDBuilder GUI got much nicer look.

New features in version 2.5

• Added support for ASP.NET on Windows. Support for ASP.NET on Macs is planned.
• Now facility for choosing files works again on Windows.
• All warning messages on Windows are shown above all windows, even splash screen.
• More useful environment variables are exported to the scripts by web server.
• Minor useful improvements were made to CDBuilder GUI.

New features in version 2.4

• Added support for ASP on Windows.
• Added support for Portable Firefox for Windows.
• Fixed support for php5 on MacOSX (library was not being copied if cdbuilder was used).
• Fixed some small bugs and made a lot of small improvements.

New features in version 2.3

• Splash screen functionality of Windows has been greatly improved. Now it redraws the image once obscured, and allows to drag splash screen with the mouse.
• Implemented support for showing tray icon on Windows (that contols web site and lets reopen initial page and inspector window, if inspector was enabled for the site). User can easily add new menuitems to the menu displayed when user clicks on tray icon.
• Fixed issue with sqlite databases copied to permament directory on HDD.
• Fixed a lot of small bugs and made a lot of small improvements.

New features in version 2.2

• Added support for Firebird database (only for Windows for now)
• Fixed support for Windows Vista
• Disable Windows XP SP2 Firewall alerts for all servers started.
• Fixed a lot of bugs and made a lot of small improvements.

New features in version 2.1

• Added support for python and mod_python-powered web sites.
• Now facility for selecting file or folder paths in webpages using native GUI uses XMLHttpRequest instead of tricks with hidden iframe for loading user's choice. This fixes severe problems with history.

New features in version 2.0

• Added support for Java and Tomcat.
• CDBuilder now allows to install additional packages using Tools->Install packages to allow modular management of existing extensions. The list of all available extensions is on present on a dedicated page.
• Some polishing of CDBuilder was performed.

New features in version 1.9

• Added support for curl php extension on all platforms and both versions of php (php4 and php5);
• Added facility for selecting file or folder paths in webpages using native GUI;
• CDBuilder GUI updated to use newly-added facility for selecting file or folder paths in webpages using native GUI, also all paths can be entered as absolute everywhere where relative paths were required.
• Some polishing of CDBuilder was performed.

New features in version 1.8

• This version fixes showing splash screen at startup on MacOSX;
• Now CDBuilder (GUI to create CDs or DVDs with webserver on them) can import MySQL database data from .sql files;
• Now along user's web site a special web script called Stunnix Web Server Inspector is opened in a separate window at web server startup. This script allows to control the web server (restart, stop, browse all logs) and MySQL database server (inspect using PhpMyAdmin and stop it). Stunnix Web Server Inspector is also enabled on demo cd. This script can be disabled using CDBuilder.
• Ejection of media is not performed if run from device other than CD/DVD.
• Icons on the CD are layed out wisely in Finder now.

New features in version 1.7

• Now splash screen is shown at web server startup on MacOS X too.
• CDBuilder GUI now lets set environment variables, and lets set MySQL configuration file and siteinfo.pm pieces (per each platform, and common for all platforms).
• InnoDB is now better supported in MySQL of any version.

New features in version 1.6

• This version adds support for ionCube Encoder for PHP scripts on MacOSX on Intel (x86) CPUs now scripts encoded with ionCube Encoder are supported on all platforms SAWS can run on (Windows, MacOSX - on PPC and Intel CPUs, and Linux on x86 CPUs).

New features in version 1.5

• Added support for MySQL version 5.0. Now one can choose which version to use - 4.1 or 5.0. This is done in 'MySQL' section of project settings in CDBuilder - when specifying mysql access mode, one has 2 options for each access mode - with version 4.1 or version 5.0 of MySQL server. Support of MySQL 5.0 means ability to use databases that use features added to version 5.0 of MySQL with Stunnix Advanced Web Server.

New features in version 1.4

• Full support for Mac OS X on Intel CPUs has been added, because PowerPC version ran improperly on Mac OS X on Intel CPUs; Note that since working decoders for ZendOptimizer and IonCube for Mac OS X on Intel CPUs are still not available from corresponding vendors, support for these decoders is absent in this version of Stunnix Advanced Web Server. Note that all external programs (e.g. run before server is started or before browser is started) for MacOSX should be either wrapper scripts (that start version of program specific to the host CPU) or Universal binaries since we didn't fork all MacOSX settings into settings for MacOSX x86 only and settings and MacOSX PPC only.
• Various non-important corrections to the code and documentation have been made.

New features in version 1.3

• Fixed severe bug that prevented some database files to be copied to hard disk correctly on Windows. E.g. that bug prevented Joomla and Mambo from working.
• Now splash screen stays on screen until the browser was started.
• Added guide on installing Joomla from scratch; Joomla-powered section added to demo cd.
• Added means for distinguishing between trial and non-trial versions of web server.
• Added tooltips to CDBuilder interface.

New features in version 1.2

• Added CDBuilder - GUI tool that allows to configure all properties of CD or application without ever touching configuration files.
• Added support for PHP5. User now has a choice between PHP4 and PHP5.
• A lot of options were added for configuring window properies of browser on Windows platforms, when MSIE browser has to be used - whether to show scrollbars, menus,statusbar,toolbar, resizebar and so on, with names starting with win32_msie_prop__, making application look even more desktop-like.
• Added configuration option not to eject CD on exit of the server (CD is ejected by default).
• Added ability to run user-specified programs before starting web server, this is very useful if you wish to have animated logo for your product instead of a static image - just use flash projector as such program, using 'program_to_run_before_server_M' options.
• Perl interpreter for linux and all perl-related files for linux were updated to Perl version 5.8.5.
• Default template for autorun.inf supports the use CDROM icon (if it's specified in CDBuilder).
• Added ability to specify text of message that warns user about necessity to turn off firewalls win32_firewall_alert_message) - useful for translating it to other languages.
• Directory with php extension (the one where phpinfo.html is located) is now added to a list of directories where dynamic linker of the OS looks for shared libraries.
• Environment variable STUNNIXWS_STATEDIR is now calculated in a way compatible with Stunnix Perl Web Server.

New features in version 1.1

• Linux: fixed problems with non-existing group 'nobody' on Mandrake and other systems.
• Linux: dependancy on various libraries not present on RedHat 9 and Mandrake 10 removed, now SAWS works just fine there.
• Different configuration file for the core is used for stopping web server on Windows (important if some extensions like php or modperl are not used in the product based on SAWS).
• Properly extend path for searching dynamic libraries.

Improvements:

• Added ability to pass additional "-D SOMETHING" commandline options to httpd core, see /site/config/httpdmods.conf for example.
• Added ability to run programs from cdrom before and after starting the browser; those programs are stopped automatically along webserver; the names of the programs and time to wait after starting them are specified using keys (in /site/config/siteinfo.pm) 'program_to_run_N_browser_M', 'program_to_run_N_browser_M_sleep_seconds' where N can be 'before' and 'after', and M can be 1,2 or 3.
• Added support for MSIE in Kiosk mode (using option win32_prefer_ie_kiosk_mode)
• Added ability to specify inital port to start searching free ports from (using option port_to_start_scanning_from) - useful for people who wish server to listen at port 80.
• Added support for PHP extensions domxml, iconv and mbstring (note: MacOSX 10.2 is not supported by them! And those extensions must be enabled explicitly in php config files).
• Greatly extended tracing capabilities; now setting option '_debugtofile' to 1 will also collect log of apache-based core in 'c:/spws-stderr.txt' or '/tmp/spws-stderr.txt'.

New features in version 1.0