Installation

WhatWeb is cross-platform compatible and works in any Ruby 1.8.x environment including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Get the Source

• WhatWeb 0.4.7 - Stable - 5th April 2011
• WhatWeb 0.4.8-dev - Development Build
• WhatWeb 0.4.8-dev-unstable - Unstable Development Build

Source Archive

• WhatWeb 0.4.7 - 5th April 2011
• WhatWeb 0.4.6 - 25th March 2011
• WhatWeb 0.4.5 - 17th August 2010
• 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 - 2nd November 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-0.4.6 Fedora package
• WhatWeb Arch Linux packages no longer available

WhatWeb is bundled with:

• BackBox Linux (Ubuntu Lucid Flexible Penetration Testing Distribution)
• BackTrack (The Default Penetration Testing Distribution)
• Blackbuntu Linux (Ubuntu Penetration Testing Distribution)
• PenToo (Gentoo Penetrating Testing Distribution)
• Node Zero Linux (Ubuntu Penetration Testing Distribution)

Tutorials

Archangel Amael has written a quick guide to get Whatweb 0.4.2 going in Backtrack 4

VulnerabilityAssessment.co.uk has written a small guide on installing WhatWeb in Ubuntu

Install Ruby

If you are using Debian or Ubuntu Linux you can use apt.

sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby

Optional, Recommended Dependencies

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

Em-Resolv-Replace

Greatly improves speed with concurrent DNS resolution. This gem is strongly recommended.

sudo gem install em-resolv-replace

JSON

Provides JSON format logging.

sudo gem install json

MongoDB

Provides logging to Mongo databases.

sudo gem install bson
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

Troubleshooting

If you have any trouble ask us for help.

Note:

• WhatWeb is not compatible with Ruby 1.9.
• Colored output is not supported in Windows.
• The em-resolv-replace gem is strongly recommended.