Re: [gentoo-user] simple web server with content negotiation feature

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 26 January 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am looking for a web server for my static website in-developing
> projects. I just want the basic features and easy-to-configure. However
> what I mean "basic" looks a bit different than other people's. I wish
> it to be able to do content negotiation (a.k.a. a browser asks for
> "my_mom" and gets my_mom.html.zh or my_mom.html.en depending on
> preferred language of the browser). I also wish it can handle HTTP 1.1.
>
> I could not find one. "eix -S negotiation" didn't get me any result.
> (on the other hand "aptitude search ~dnegotiation" did suggested me
> fnord can do content negotiation, although it's only partially
> implemented.)
>
> My question is:
> 	1. Can you please suggest some web server that can do content
> 	   negotiation, besides apache?

"negotiation" is not a recognised USE flag:

# euse -i negotiation
global use flags (searching: negotiation)
************************************************************
no matching entries found

local use flags (searching: negotiation)
************************************************************
no matching entries found

therefore I am not sure that any packages in portage use it.  (Apache uses the 
module mod_negotiation which is compiled in by default).  Have you looked at 
www-servers/lighttpd, or www-servers/thttpd?

> 	2. Can you please tell me how do you usually find out if some
> of the packages in portage can do content negotiation?

Sorry, can't help with this.  Perhaps others more knowledgeable in the 
features of different http servers can advise here.  I would think that it is 
a matter of searching in their respective project websites and then reading 
their documentation for each package under /usr/portage/www-servers/.  
Alternative, emerge, try it out, unmerge and so on.

BTW, I am not sure if some PHP scripting would offer this facility to simpler 
http servers, which do not support it natively like apache.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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