[sclug] Toy web-server?

[J.Mann]

My webserver of choice is thttpd:

  http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/thttpd

I believe it (mostly) meets the criteria that you specify.

In particular, it is very simple to setup and configure.

Best regards,
Jon.


On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:01:59AM +0100, Will Dickson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Due to various losses which Samba has suddenly decided to inflict on me 
> (Ghod knows what's going on, it's probably my fault somehow, but I 
> haven't got time to get to the bottom of it and I really can't be 
> bothered, frankly) I'm looking for a trivial web-server package which 
> can do the following:
> 
> - accept incoming connections from a LAN.
> - serve bog-standard web content (html, CSS, a few pngs etc.) from a 
> single directory on my HDD, ie. "chroot jail".
> - treat symlinks in that directory as though they were the thing linked 
> to, ie. ignore the fact that they're actually symlinks.
> - smallish footprint an advantage.
> 
> That's it really. In particular, I don't want or need any of the following:
> 
> - any security whatsoever, apart from that provided by file permissions 
> and the chroot jail (ie. I run the server daemon as user foo, it will 
> serve anything foo can read which is accessible from within the chroot jail)
> - at a pinch, omit the "apart from..." qualifier from the statement above
> - extensibility
> - clever configurational stuff
> - ability to cope with lots of traffic
> - CGI, servlets, SSI, PHP...
> 
> Clearly Apache could do this in its sleep, but it seems like a 
> piledriver to crack a nut, and probably I'd have to go without quite a 
> lot of same in order to learn how to set it up :-(
> 
> Can anyone point me at a package which might suit?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Will.
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