2.3. Configuration file: monkey.conf

Variables available in monkey.conf

Port

Port is the number of the door in which Monkey will be listened through connections and petitions. This number can have any value between 1 and 65535. Whatever specified number less than or equal to 1024, only will be able to be established as a connection door if the user posesses privledges of Root.

Port 2001

Listen

Listen directive restrict Monkey to listen for incoming connections to just the network interface associated to the given value. In order to allow just loopback connection you could use:

Listen 127.0.0.1

Workers

Monkey launches threads to attend clients; each worker thread is capable of attend more than one client request at the same time. The amount of clients that can be handled by each thread is calculated using the number of file descriptors allowed by the system. This variable cannot be less than 1.

Workers 5

Timeout

The lasgest span of time expressed in seconds during which you should wait to recive the information or waiting time for the remote host to accept an answer. (Timeout > 0)

Timeout 15

PidFile

File where the server guards the process number when starting.

PidFile /home/foo/MonkeyD/logs/monkey.pid

UserDir

Directory name for users home (/~user).

UserDir public_html

Indexfile

Number of the inicial file of aperture when calling a directory

 Indexfile index index.htm 

HideVersion

For security reasons, sometimes people want to hide the version of his own webserver to clients (values on/off).

 HideVersion off 

Resume

Allow to retrieve chunks of file (values on/off).

 Resume on 

User

If you want the webserver to run as a process of a defined user, you can define it in this variable, so that the change of the user can done, it's necessary to execute Monkey with root priviledges. In case it's started by a user that doesn't have root priviledges, this variable will be omitted.

 User www-data