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Port details on branch 2026Q2
hiawatha Advanced and secure web server for Unix
12.2 www on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 12.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: pkaipila@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 18:17:43
Last Update: 2026-05-03 00:42:54
Commit Hash: 2e42e26
License: GPLv2
WWW:
https://hiawatha.leisink.net/
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.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/hiawatha-12.2/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/hiawatha-12.2/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/hiawatha-12.2/GPLv2
  4. @sample etc/hiawatha/cgi-wrapper.conf.sample
  5. @sample etc/hiawatha/error.xslt.sample
  6. @sample etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf.sample
  7. @sample etc/hiawatha/index.xslt.sample
  8. @sample etc/hiawatha/mimetype.conf.sample
  9. @sample etc/hiawatha/toolkit.conf.sample
  10. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/acmev2.php
  11. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/config.php
  12. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/hiawatha_config.php
  13. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/http.php
  14. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/https.php
  15. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.conf
  16. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.php
  17. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/logfile.php
  18. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/openssl.conf
  19. @comment lib/hiawatha/letsencrypt/rsa.php
  20. sbin/cgi-wrapper
  21. sbin/hiawatha
  22. @comment sbin/lefh
  23. sbin/ssi-cgi
  24. sbin/wigwam
  25. share/man/man1/cgi-wrapper.1.gz
  26. @comment share/man/man1/lefh.1.gz
  27. share/man/man1/hiawatha.1.gz
  28. share/man/man1/ssi-cgi.1.gz
  29. share/man/man1/wigwam.1.gz
  30. @sample www/hiawatha/index.html.sample
  31. @dir /var/db/hiawatha
  32. @dir /var/log/hiawatha
  33. @owner
  34. @group
  35. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • hiawatha
Dependency lines:
  • hiawatha>0:www/hiawatha
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/www/hiawatha/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install www/hiawatha
  • pkg install hiawatha
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: hiawatha
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1777745139 SHA256 (hiawatha-12.2.tar.gz) = 1251c426b151c46471899bf3de50a5650e4fd852864fdf9f22c512038492f668 SIZE (hiawatha-12.2.tar.gz) = 3127774

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
hiawatha
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest12.112.110.1111.7_112.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly12.112.111.2_111.7_112.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest12.212.211.2_111.7_112.211.2_1-11.2_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly12.212.2-11.7_112.211.2_111.2_111.2_1
FreeBSD:15:latest12.212.2n/a11.7_1n/an/a11.2_111.2_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly12.212.2n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest12.212.2n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  2. ninja : devel/ninja
Library dependencies:
  1. libmbedtls.so : security/mbedtls4
  2. libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
  3. libxslt.so : textproc/libxslt
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for hiawatha-12.2: CACHE=on: Caching support CGIWRAPPER=on: 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=on: Reverse proxy support TOMAHAWK=off: Tomahawk command shell support TOOLKIT=on: URL toolkit support XSLT=on: XSLT support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
www_hiawatha
USES:
cmake:insource compiler:c11 cpe localbase:ldflags shebangfix gnome
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://hiawatha.leisink.net/files/download/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
12.2
03 May 2026 00:42:54
commit hash: 2e42e2698545d846afb02c0dcfb22806d50ff44dcommit hash: 2e42e2698545d846afb02c0dcfb22806d50ff44dcommit hash: 2e42e2698545d846afb02c0dcfb22806d50ff44dcommit hash: 2e42e2698545d846afb02c0dcfb22806d50ff44d files touched by this commit
Yusuf Yaman (nxjoseph) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Paavo-Einari Kaipila
www/hiawatha: Update 12.1 => 12.2

While here, sort pkg-plist.

Release Notes:
https://hiawatha.leisink.net/changelog

PR:		294960
Reported by:	Paavo-Einari Kaipila <pkaipila@gmail.com> (maintainer)
Approved by:	vvd (co-mentor)
MFH:		2026Q2

(cherry picked from commit b638eddc6f77ec28de9a240a05841c2ea2ef9fd4)
12.1
10 Apr 2026 16:48:27
commit hash: 38f0bb0a9599346a37114bff85d227d43212e527commit hash: 38f0bb0a9599346a37114bff85d227d43212e527commit hash: 38f0bb0a9599346a37114bff85d227d43212e527commit hash: 38f0bb0a9599346a37114bff85d227d43212e527 files touched by this commit
Yusuf Yaman (nxjoseph) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Paavo-Einari Kaipila
www/hiawatha: Update 12.0 => 12.1

Release Notes:
https://hiawatha.leisink.net/changelog

PR:		294302
Reported by:	Paavo-Einari Kaipila <pkaipila@gmail.com> (maintainer)
Approved by:	osa, vvd (mentors)
MFH:		2026Q2

(cherry picked from commit 71e41147e4cb605cea592d745df3bb0a65652e63)

Number of commits found: 2