Minimal web server

Chris F.A. Johnson cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 27 07:55:08 UTC 2005


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Anton Markov wrote:

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> Robert Brockway wrote:
> |  On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
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> | 
> | >  Is there something less complex than Apache for serving HTML/XHTML?
> | > I'm thinking of getting my feet wet with a home-based server (which
> | > IStop allows).  No streaming or cgi in mind, simply XHTML 1.1 and
> | > possibly a few small files.  I want something simple and secure.
> | 
> | 
> |  Apache is not hard to setup in a basic configuration.  You could just use
> |  Apache with lots of the modules turned off.  This would allow you to
> |  expaned the functionality you use later with little trouble.
> | 
> |  Rob
> | 
>
> Slightly OT:
>
> What web server is usually used for web-based configration UIs such as
> CUPS or Webmin? Do they all use a statically-linked version of apache or
> something?

     They use their own. A basic web server is not hard to write. I
     remember seeing a web server written for the Amiga that was 7
     lines of ARexx code.

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