Ocsigen is an extensible Web server. This means that you can plug modules into the server, to serve several kinds of pages. A few extensions are provided with the official Ocsigen distribution:
- Staticmod
- is an extension to serve static files.
- Eliom
- is an extension to create dynamic Web site in OCaml using high level concepts.
- Extendconfiguration
- allows for more options in the configuration file.
- Accesscontrol
- allows to restrict the access to the sites from the config file (to request coming from a subnet, containing some headers, etc.).
- Authbasic
- allows to restrict the access to the sites from the config file using Basic HTTP Authentication.
- CGImod
- is an extension to serve CGI scripts. It may also be used to serve PHP through CGI.
- Deflatemod
- is an extension used to compress data before sending to the client.
- Redirectmod
- is an extension to set redirections towards other Web sites from the configuration file.
- Revproxy
- is a reverse proxy for Ocsigen. It allows to ask another server to handle the request.
- Rewritemod
- is a module to rewrite requests.
- Outputfilter
- allows to rewrite some parts of the output before sending it to the client.
- Userconf
- allows users to have their own configuration files.
- Comet
- makes server to client communications possible.