www/hiawatha 12.3 FreeBSD

Advanced and secure web server for Unix

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-07-29
Commit: 80b699e039
License: GPLv2
Categories: www
Package size: 139.1 KiB, 355.5 KiB installed

Description

Hiawatha is an advanced and secure web server for Unix. It has been written with 'being secure' as its main goal. Hiawatha has many security features that no other web server has. Besides being very secure, it's also a very fast web server. It's twice as fast as Apache for static content. It supports load-balanced FastCGI, which makes it fast and scalable for serving CGI.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 12.4, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

FreeBSD

www/hiawatha

12.3 behind since 2026-10-14

none known

[email protected]

2026-07-29

OpenBSD

www/hiawatha

12.4 newest

no data

The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>

2026-10-14

NetBSD

www/hiawatha

12.1 behind since 2026-07-27

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-30

DragonFly

www/hiawatha

11.6 behind since 2026-07-27

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

www/hiawatha

12.3 behind since 2026-10-14

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

www/hiawatha

12.3 behind since 2026-10-14

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Version history 1

12.3 2026-07-29 80b699e039

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install hiawatha

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/www/hiawatha/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	hiawatha>0:www/hiawatha

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

12.3

11.2_1

11.7_1

12.3

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

12.3

n/a

11.7_1

12.3

FreeBSD:15:latest

12.3

n/a

11.7_1

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

12.3

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

12.3

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["www/hiawatha"]
  me --> d0["devel/gettext-runtime"]
  me --> d1["devel/readline"]
  me --> d2["print/indexinfo"]
  me --> d3["security/libgcrypt"]
  me --> d4["security/libgpg-error"]
  me --> d5["security/mbedtls4"]
  me --> d6["textproc/libxml2"]
  me --> d7["textproc/libxslt"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 1

libmbedtls.so : security/mbedtls4

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 20

Run dependencies 8

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: www_hiawatha

Option

Default

Description

CACHE

Caching support

CGIWRAPPER

Install cgi-wrapper(1) (needs setuid bit)

LEFH

off

Install Let\'s Encrypt For Hiawatha script

LOADCHECK

off

Load check support (experimental)

MONITOR

off

Hiawatha Monitor support

RPROXY

Reverse proxy support

TOMAHAWK

off

Tomahawk command shell support

TOOLKIT

URL toolkit support

XSLT

XSLT support

USES: cmake:insource compiler:c11 cpe localbase:ldflags shebangfix
Service scripts: hiawatha

Files

Manual pages 5

cgi-wrapper(1)
hiawatha(1)
lefh(1)
ssi-cgi(1)
wigwam(1)

pkg-plist 29

@sample etc/hiawatha/cgi-wrapper.conf.sample
@sample etc/hiawatha/error.xslt.sample
@sample etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf.sample
@sample etc/hiawatha/index.xslt.sample
@sample etc/hiawatha/mimetype.conf.sample
@sample etc/hiawatha/toolkit.conf.sample
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/acmev2.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/config.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/hiawatha_config.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/http.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/https.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.conf
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/logfile.php
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/openssl.conf
lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/rsa.php
sbin/cgi-wrapper
sbin/hiawatha
sbin/lefh
sbin/ssi-cgi
sbin/wigwam
share/man/man1/cgi-wrapper.1.gz
share/man/man1/lefh.1.gz
share/man/man1/hiawatha.1.gz
share/man/man1/ssi-cgi.1.gz
share/man/man1/wigwam.1.gz
@sample www/hiawatha/index.html.sample
@dir /var/db/hiawatha
@dir /var/log/hiawatha

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

hiawatha-12.3.tar.gz

3.134765e+06

741c0de4a8055477ae0eca2a32832e8c694d8869e4b53a43a44a2a4e598663c8

Master sites 1

https://hiawatha.leisink.net/files/download/

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-07-29

80b699e039

Paavo-Einari Kaipila

www/hiawatha: Update 12.2 => 12.3

Changes: https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/hiawatha/-/blob/30b28a91c9602611c519af46c15097432239b0f2/ChangeLog PR: 297101 Reported by: Paavo-Einari Kaipila <[email protected]> (maintainer)