On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:43:09 -0500 Jay Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All, > > Does anyone have experience with setting up a local web server using > Perl using something like HTTP::Daemon? My objective is to give > users a web tool which can access their data disks areas (i.e. started > locally); whereas, the typical web server in their office will not > have access to them. > > I also ran across http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/perl/webserver/index.html > which looks simple enough. > > Any thoughts on feasibility, security or lessons learned on this would > be appreciated. I have done it as an exercise (and did a talk on it at Houston.pm: http://houston.pm.org/talks/2004talks/0411Talk/index.htm). The main downside is the fact that it will not handle much traffic. Normally a server built with HTTP::Daemon is single-threaded, so it can only handle one request at a time. For anything other than a very simple application I normally install Apache. If Apache is more than you need, I've been seeing good things about Lighttpd (http://www.lighttpd.net/) lately. G. Wade -- I like you. You're trouble. -- Draal - "Voices of Authority" _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
