Afterburner

You can fetch a time-limited demo executable of Afterburner:

This demo will expire 30 days after you download it.

Once you have fetched the file, you unpack it like so:

gunzip afterburner-2.11-FreeBSD.tar.gz
tar xvf afterburner-2.11-FreeBSD.tar
rm afterburner-2.11-FreeBSD.tar

This leaves you with a new directory called afterburner-2.11-FreeBSD containing these files:

afterburner - the executable
afterburner.1 - the Unix-style manual page
dolog - logfile translation executable
dolog.1 - manual page for dolog
data - the subdirectory where your web files go
afterburner.sh - sample boot-time startup script
afterburner_config - sample configuration file
500.afterburner-rotate - sample log rotation script

Test the system by starting up the server with a command such as:


./afterburner -p 8000

The 8000 is the port number you want the server to listen on for testing. There's some more info on the various command-line flags in the manual page. Verify that the sever is working by pointing your web browser at http://your.hostname.here:8000/ - you should get a page saying "Afterburner is running".

After you're satisfied that it's working, you can set up your real web site. Take a look at the Afterburner sample configuration guide.

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