Basic settings

What is SSL/TLS
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) are protocols that protect your privacy and secret. It is mostly used on e-commerce web servers, such as online shopping cart. When you are about to enter any confidential information or credit card number, you will often be redirected to an SSL web site by the URL with a 'https://' prefix. Not only it is commonly used on web servers, but it is also a general protocol for any kind of internet application that requires secured connections

Why and when do I need it?
If you are running any web service that is involved in the following:
Any web page that allows the user to register personal information.
Any web server that can access private database.
Any web server that process customer's credit card number.
Anything you think that should be kept confidential.

How to setup SSL/TLS in RaidenHTTPD?

Item	default	description
SSL Server IP	0.0.0.0	RaidenHTTPD will automatically detect your server's IP, but you can pick one manually. If you are using dynamic IP, please bind to 0.0.0.0 and RaidenHTTPD will use any IP address that has been assigned to on your server PC.
SSL Port	443	HTTPS uses port 443 by default. If you prefer to use another one, we recommend you to use any port higher than 1024.

You may make some adjustment under performance options within RaidenHTTPD to increase the performance.

Item	default	description
HTTP Persistent connection (Keep-Alive)	30	Keep-Alive allows web browsers to re-use existing connection for more than one http requests. You may set this parameter to 0 to disable it. However, we do not recommend you to disable it, and yet we would rather recommend you to set this parameter to a larger value, such as 30s - 60s.
Concurrent threads	32	Multi-threads can reduce the average waiting time of http clients. Please make sure that your computer is powerful enough if you want to use more threads.

What is IP checking
You can block or unblock a range of IP addresses to access your web server. It is necessary if you want to prevent internet attacks or hackers off your web server.

How to setup RaidenHTTPD IP checking?
First of all, please check your default rule. There are options of 'deny all' or 'allow all' to choose from. If you 'Deny all IP', then you need to add the allowed IP addresses to the check list for exception. If you 'Allow all IP', then you need to add the denied addresses to the check list for exception.

Click on to enter a new IP in the list.

Click on to delete an existing rule in the list.

What are Virus/Hacking codes?
There are many automatic hacking programs or viruses on the internet. The infected systems will continuously attack your web server until the owners of those systems fix it. Usually, if your web server is not the 'attacking target' of those worms, then you are safe. However, the traffic the viruses have created will still waste your netwrok bandwidth and system resources because your web server has to process those useless requests.

With the RaidenHTTPD built-in virues/hacking codes filter, the web server can directly drop the junky requests and save your valuable system resources. The codes filter will also automatically ban the IP addresses if they are attacking you.




How to add and delete virues/hacking codes filter?
Click to add a new code; click to delete a code

 

What is web page compression?
If you are using ADSL/CABLE modem to run a web server, web page compression can save great amount of outbound bandwidth because most of the pages are text files and be compressed effeciently so to cut down the transferring time.

Item	default	description
Enable web page compression	4-1024kb	Only compress web pages within the range between 4kb and 1024kb. Any values below 4kb or above 1024kb are not appropriate.

 

Setup VirtualHost and VFS Setup it for each virtual host

When you have this option enabled, the user, who sends a HTTP request to a folder on your server, will see a directory list of the current virtual directory.

Setup VirtualHost and VFS Setup it for each virtual host

If you enable this, a user with simplified Chinese web browser will be able to access your traditional Chinese web pages because the RaidenHTTPD will convert the characters on-the-fly to simplified Chinese for the user.

RaidenHTTPD has a built-in Php.ini editor for easy php administration.

If you wish to use RaidenHTTPD's web administration interface, then the register_globals must be turned on.

The extension_dir has to be set correctly; otherwise, the external modules of Php can not work properly. This directory is often at c:/php/extensions.

Note: After you change any setting, you have to restart RaidenHTTPD.