Networking

This sections allows you to configure how the server interacts with the network.

IPv6 enables the IPv6 support. If it is unselected the server will not use IPv6 even if the operating system supports it.

Listen: IP Address to which the server will bind itself while waiting for incoming requests. This is useful if the computer has more than one IP address and you want to start one server per IP address.
NOTEIf you don't specify any IP address, than the server will listen to all configured IP addresses.

Basic Behaviour

KeepAlive: enables the global keep alive support for the client requests. It increases the client performance by reusing a connection for more than one request. It is usually a good idea leave it on, unless you end up in trillions of concurrent connections (i.e. more than 30000 - 40000).

Server Permissions

If the server is launched with enough privileges, it is possible to change its effective user and group to prevent security issues. You can use either the user/group name or its numerical ID.

If a directory is specified as chroot, the server will jail itself inside it. It is important to know that, even if chroot is a security mechanism, it should not be used as the only security measure.