Roxen

Roxen Webserver

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Roxen Webserver

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2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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ofrzeta·Apr 22, 2025

Brings back some memories of the webserver Roxen that had a GUI, if I remember correctly. It still seems to be semi-alive, although the download page looks broken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxen_(web_server) EDIT: Github repo https://github.com/pikelang/Roxen

In Pike – a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C

leejoramo·Mar 20, 2020

I remember AOLserver was evaluated at company that I worked for. They were using Roxen at the time and decided to stay with that. I remember both AOLServer and Roxen had such amazing features, that Apache felt like a huge step backward. But of course, Apache worked well one smaller servers, Not often you see a 22 year old commit: https://github.com/pikelang/Roxen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxen_(web_server) https://roxen.com

In Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (1999)