[Gllug] Small http server with ssi?

[Jon Dye]

2008/10/22 Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Jon Dye <jon at pecorous.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 2008/10/22 - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com>
> >
> >> it probably falls under the
> >> "premature optimisation" banner.
> >
> > I'm not sure I would consider it premature optimisation.  I've got a list
> of
> > webservers I can install using apt and I want to pick one.  I think "the
> > smallest that supports ssi" is a reasonable way to choose which to
> install.
> >  Alternatively I could pick the first one alphabetically and go with
> apache
>
> I'd say it was premature if you had to invest time fiddling with /
> learning a new http server.  I'd use the one which gets you the
> quickest results - the one you're most familiar with - unless time !=
> money for you.


Even being quite familiar with Apache it's just taken me far less time to
get both tighttpd and thttpd installed and configured than it's ever taken
me to configure apache.  It's just a shame that their ssi support is flawed.
 It seems I'm going to end up with apache after all.

JD
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