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.

Latest release: v0.33.0 on Monday, 20 Feb 2012

Monkey project team, is proud to announce the availability of our major release Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.33.

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


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/0.33/monkey-0.33.0.tar.gz
$ tar zxfv monkey-0.33.0.tar.gz
$ cd monkey-0.33.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ bin/monkey
Now point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:2001