Installation

Read the Install file from the repository.

Source

• WhatWeb 0.4.6 Development Build
• WhatWeb 0.4.5 - August 17th 2010

Source Archive

• WhatWeb 0.4.4 - 29th June 2010
• WhatWeb 0.4.3 - 24th May 2010
• WhatWeb 0.4.2 - 30th April 2010
• WhatWeb 0.4.1 - 28th March 2010
• WhatWeb 0.4 - 14th March 2010
• WhatWeb 0.3 - 1st December 2009

Packages

Please note that these packages may not be up to date.

• WhatWeb-0.4.5-noarch openSUSE package
• WhatWeb-0.4.5 Gentoo package
• WhatWeb-0.4.5 FreeBSD package
• WhatWeb-0.4.5-unstable Fedora 13 package
• WhatWeb Arch Linux packages no longer available

WhatWeb is bundled with:

• BackTrack (The Default Penetration Testing Distribution)
• Blackbuntu Linux (Ubuntu Penetration Testing Distribution)
• PenToo (Gentoo Penetrating Testing Distribution)

Tutorials

Archangel Amael has written a tutorial on using WhatWeb 0.4.2 in Backtrack 4

Quick guide to get Whatweb going in BT4

Optional Dependencies

WhatWeb gracefully degrades when these dependencies aren't available. Gems are ruby libraries.

Em-Resolv-Replace

Greatly improves speed with concurrent DNS resolution.

sudo gem install em-resolv-replace

JSON

Provides JSON format logging.

sudo gem install json

MongoDB

Provides logging to Mongo databases.

sudo gem install bison
sudo gem install bson_ext
sudo gem install mongo

RChardet

Character set detection which is required for converting results to UTF-8. This is required for stable logging to MongoDB and JSON.

sudo gem install rchardet