MiniMax is a secure, fast and small (<60k) http/1.1 web server for Windows-based computers. It is ideal for a department or mid-sized company's intranet web-site or for personal use. It is also great for creating a web-site-on-a-CD-ROM. MiniMax requires no setup other than on the command line. Great care has been taken to ensure that MiniMax works every time, all the time, and that it cannot be hacked. MiniMax is free for corporate, personal, academic or government use. A license to distribute it is available, and Visual C++ source code is available.

Installing MiniMax is trivial, and it keeps a low memory profile.

It is available at www.infomage.com 

Installing MiniMax

1. After unzipping MiniMax.zip, copy MiniMax.exe and CloseMiniMax.exe to a suitable folder. E.g., WEB/Binary/
   
2. In your "StartUp" folder, Create a shortcut to MiniMax.exe with the path to the web root on the command line, and the path to the log folder in the "Start In" folder. For example
   
   Shortcut: "c:\WEB\Binary\MiniMax.exe" c:\WEB\WWWRoot
   Start In:   "c:\WEB\logs"
   
   Note: You may place quotes around the shortcut paths as shown, but do not place quotes around the web root path.
   

Testing MiniMax

A number of files have been included for testing your MiniMax install; they are bundled in 'testfiles.zip.' After installing MiniMax, unzip these files into your web folder (e.g., c:\WEB\WWWRoot). To test basic file serving, CGI with exe files, and CGI with Perl files, browse:

• http://myHost/TestWeb.html
• http://myHost/TestExe.exe
• http://myHost/TestPerl.pl

You can remove these files after testing.

Running MiniMax

• Any files that do not begin with "_" in the root folder or and subfolder of the root will be available to browse.
• Any files beginning with "_" are hidden files that cannot be browsed.
• Any executable files that do not begin with "_" in the folders will execute as CGI programs. (Executable files are defined in the Windows environment variable PATHEXT. From a DOS window type SET PATHEXT to see the list.)
• Any executable files that do begin with "_" will not execute and can be downloaded by the browser. To allow users to download them, provide a link without the "_". For example, To allow downloads from the URL http://MyHost/MyProg.exe name the file _MyProg.exe. The underscore should not be used in the URL.
• For URLs with no file name given, MiniMax will try index.htm, index.html, index.pl, and index.exe in that order.

Other Information

• MiniMax creates log files in the W3C Extended Common format. The Logfile name is MiniMaxHttpLog.txt.
• MiniMax is designed to be unobtrusize. It does not create a window, nor does it place an icon in the system tray. One may find MiniMax.exe in the task manager.
• To close MiniMax, or to detect that it is running, run the program CloseMiniMax.exe, then click Yes or No on the pop-up window. MiniMax will make a short sound to signify that it is exiting.
• MiniMax runs on the web port 80.
• To see how MiniMax is licensed, run a DOS window and run 'MiniMax license'. A pop-up window will show a license summary.