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Install civetweb with Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, zypper

C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support. Version 1.16 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-30.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install civetweb

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%

sudo apk add civetweb

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · civetweb · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%

sudo apt install civetweb

Debian stable package indexes · civetweb · source: deb.debian.org

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#civetweb

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ci/civetweb/package.nix · source: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%

sudo zypper install civetweb

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · civetweb · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support

Project links

Commands and aliases

civetweb

history

Project history and usage

CivetWeb is a small MIT-licensed C/C++ embeddable web server that can also run as a standalone server. In package-manager terms it is the long-lived, permissively licensed Mongoose fork that gives C applications an HTTP, HTTPS, CGI, Lua, WebSocket, and WebDAV-capable server without pulling in a large framework.

Project history

The official README says CivetWeb was forked from the last MIT-licensed version of Mongoose in August 2013, after Mongoose moved to a dual GPL/commercial license. Release notes for v1.0 describe the initial objective as preserving an MIT-licensed Mongoose-derived distribution and renaming the code and documentation to CivetWeb.

The project subsequently developed independently on GitHub, with release notes showing steady maintenance across API, TLS, Lua, WebSocket, HTTP/2 experiments, fuzzing, and platform-support work.

Adoption history

CivetWeb is packaged across several Unix-style ecosystems in the batch input, including Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and openSUSE/zypper. Its official README also points end users to GitHub and SourceForge binaries and source releases, while directing contributions and issues to GitHub.

How it is used

Developers embed CivetWeb as a library to add web-server functionality to an existing C or C++ program, or run it as a standalone executable on Windows, Unix, Linux, and macOS. Its user manual documents command-line startup, optional configuration-file use, and many runtime options.

Why package nerds care

CivetWeb matters to package maintainers because it preserves the permissively licensed branch of a once-common embedded-web-server lineage. It is small enough to package as a command and library, broad enough to need TLS and scripting dependency decisions, and old enough that downstreams care about ABI, license, and security-update continuity.

Timeline

2013: CivetWeb forked from the last MIT-licensed Mongoose version.
2014: GitHub release v1.6 published.
2021: Release notes show OpenSSL 3.0 and mbed TLS 3 work in v1.16.
2026: GitHub repository metadata shows continuing activity.

Related projects

Mongoose is the direct ancestor named by the CivetWeb README.
The README describes CivetWeb as useful either as an embedded library or as a standalone web server, overlapping with other lightweight C HTTP server libraries.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for civetweb. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: CivetWeb.conf in the executable directory
Windows: CivetWeb.conf in the executable directory

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`civetweb`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version1.16

manager updated2026-06-30

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv1.16

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:civetweb
Version	1.16
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/civetweb
Homepage	https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb
Repository	https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb
Upstream docs	https://civetweb.github.io/civetweb
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/archive/refs/tags/v1.16.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-30T05:12:28Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	openssl@3
Build dependencies	cmake
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	civetweb
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

civetweb 1.16+dfsg-2+deb13u1

embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/

sudo apt install civetweb

Section: web
Architecture: amd64
2 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: civetweb from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Debian apt95%

libcivetweb-dev 1.16+dfsg-2+deb13u1

embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support (devel)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/

sudo apt install libcivetweb-dev

Section: libdevel
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: civetweb
1 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libcivetweb-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Debian apt95%

libcivetweb1 1.16+dfsg-2+deb13u1

embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support (lib)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/

sudo apt install libcivetweb1

Section: libs
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: civetweb
3 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libcivetweb1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

civetweb

nix profile install nixpkgs#civetweb

normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ci/civetweb/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

civetweb 1.16+dfsg-1build1

embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/

sudo apt install civetweb

Section: universe/web
Architecture: amd64
2 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: civetweb from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Ubuntu apt95%

libcivetweb-dev 1.16+dfsg-1build1

embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support (devel)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/

sudo apt install libcivetweb-dev

Section: universe/libdevel
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: civetweb
1 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libcivetweb-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Ubuntu apt95%

libcivetweb1 1.16+dfsg-1build1

embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support (lib)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/

sudo apt install libcivetweb1

Section: universe/libs
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: civetweb
3 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libcivetweb1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

apk95%

civetweb 1.16-r0

Embedded C/C++ web server

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo apk add civetweb

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
1 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: civetweb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

civetweb-dev 1.16-r0

Embedded C/C++ web server (development files)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo apk add civetweb-dev

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
1 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: civetweb-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

libcivetweb 1.16-r0

Embedded C/C++ web server (C library)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo apk add libcivetweb

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
1 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libcivetweb from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

libcivetweb-cpp 1.16-r0

Embedded C/C++ web server (C++ library)

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo apk add libcivetweb-cpp

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
1 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libcivetweb-cpp from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

zypper95%

civetweb 1.6+git1776611085.588860e3-1.1

A C/C++ web server

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo zypper install civetweb

License: MIT
Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
2 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: civetweb from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

civetweb-devel 1.6+git1776611085.588860e3-1.1

Header files and development libraries for civetweb

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo zypper install civetweb-devel

License: MIT
Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
3 dependencies
3 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: civetweb-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

libcivetweb-cpp1_16_0 1.6+git1776611085.588860e3-1.1

Shared Object for applications that use civetweb embedded

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo zypper install libcivetweb-cpp1_16_0

License: MIT
Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
5 dependencies
2 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libcivetweb-cpp1_16_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

libcivetweb1_16_0 1.6+git1776611085.588860e3-1.1

Shared Object for applications that use civetweb embedded

https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

sudo zypper install libcivetweb1_16_0

License: MIT
Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: civetweb
5 dependencies
2 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Civetweb

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libcivetweb1_16_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

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combined/civetweb.yml

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Install civetweb with Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, zypper

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