Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.
Oscar Carlsson wrote: I think lighttpd might be something like what you're looking for. It's pretty lightweight, fast enough and php/ruby/perl works with it (through fastCGI). http://www.lighttpd.net/ And of course it's in portage :) Oscar I've installed lighttpd - and while mostly impressed I'm finding problems with authentication support. I've set up two websites extranet.mydomain.com and intranet.mydomain.com - the idea being that extranet contains public information for which no password/username is required - whereas intranet requires a username and password (in future this page might be personalised.) I've read authentication.txt and I'm still baffled... Here's the relevant bits from my configuration in lighttpd.conf -- server.modules = ( mod_access, mod_auth, mod_simple_vhost,) -- ... -- auth.backend= plain auth.backend.plain.userfile = lighttpd.user auth.require = ( intranet.mydomain.com/ = ( method = digest, realm = Intranet, require = user=fred ) ) -- I placed lighttpd.user in /etc and it contains the single line fred:foo With this configuration, neither site asks for a password. If I replace intranet.mydomain.com/ with / both sites ask for a password... but neither will accept fred password foo. Then, if I change digest to plain then I don't get asked for a password for either site but get Access denied immediately. Have I discovered bugs - or is this a confiiguration problem? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.
Having recently had hassle with dependencies for Apache2 for my configuration, I had a sudden thought that I don't really need most of the Apache features... and there are many http servers available in portage. I can classify my priorities as essential and desirable: Essential : * Must be secure against remote attacks. * Must support username-and-password based authentication. Desirable : * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server) * As lightweight as possible (traffic volume would be minuscule - server would be heavily loaded and low capacity.) Can anyone make suggestions as to good packages to investigate? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Essential : * Must be secure against remote attacks. * Must support username-and-password based authentication. Desirable : * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server) * As lightweight as possible (traffic volume would be minuscule - server would be heavily loaded and low capacity.) Can anyone make suggestions as to good packages to investigate? mini_httpd http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/ Supports ssl, basic authentication and multihoming / virtual hosting. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
