All: Thanks to everybody who wrote, both on and off list. I found some useful notes on a basic Apache installation from a technofreaks site in Malaysia and downloaded that. I knew of Apache by repute and must say I was shocked to find that the server that powers 30 percent of web sites on all platforms is only about 6 Mb in size. Clearly the developers will have to load it with null bytes to get an install size of 40 Mb for street cred against all the bloat ware out there. 8^)
For future reference I have summarised all the posts to aid anyone else who in the future might want a simple server for localhost testing. Regards, Hedley Glenn and Fred wrote: > What operating system are you using? > Windows XP SP3 > Windows XP, Linux, Mac? Windows XP has a Web server integrated if I > am not mistaken, maybe only the Pro version, maybe it's in XP home... I have tried Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) before but it hogs the CPU and makes using other apps simultaneously almost impossible. Christopher wrote: > I don't really think this qualifies as lightweight, but > I set up apache a couple of times and it was really > easy. I only mention this because I feel like I have > the same "gaps" in knowledge that you do. Well, you convinced me! David Jones wrote: > Setting it up using Apache2Triad <http://apache2triad.net> makes it very > lightweight. Lightweight enough that I used to run it on my old desktop > Windows98 PC ... Apache2Triad is very easy for novices (and when it > comes to configuring a web server, that's pretty much exactly where I > am!) > Jerod wrote: > I'd also recommend checking out some from this list: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_web_servers > > I've used shttpd before (although they're on a different version now) > and had good luck with it. > Michael wrote: > Lighty http://www.lighttpd.net/ and nginx http://nginx.net/ have both > been getting good press recently. > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html > David wrote: > There was another one I've used - a command line only one, and the only > way you could stop it was to use Task Manager to kill it. I think it > was TinyWeb - yes, here it is: > http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/tinyweb/ > > Very lightweight (53KB!!!), supports CGI, configured only via command > line parameters. > Tim wrote: > It may not count as lightweight, but I found XAMPP very easy to set up. > http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html > > David wrote: > As you have seen, files served directly from the hard drive do not > work when using "root-relative" addressing. ... > > The default install should work well for you-- it does for me, > anyway. Other packages I tried needed tweaking, which takes time > and learning. Hopefully you, too, can just "load and go." > > Get it here-- it's free: > > <http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html> > > Allan wrote: > Anyway, in response to Hedley Fingers post, I would suggest he looks at > WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/) ant the excellent guides to be > found at http://guides.jlbn.net/ -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
