On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 09:14:27 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 12.11.2011 10:01, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 15:46, Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@nileshgr.com> 
wrote:
> >> On Sat 12 Nov 2011 01:54:10 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >>> What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo?
> >>> 
> >>> I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI / PHP /
> >>> whathaveyouscripting support is needed.
> >>> 
> >>> Preferably, with logging so I can see which packages I missed, but not
> >>> necessary.
> >>> 
> >>> Rgds,
> >> 
> >> nginx.
> >> You can disable fastcgi/etc using use flags.
> > 
> > What about www-servers/fnord ?
> > 
> > Its website[1] claims that its binaries are less than 20 kB[2]
> > 
> > [1] http://www.fefe.de/fnord/
> > [2] http://www.fefe.de/fnord/others.html
> > 
> > Rgds,
> 
> Talking about small: `/bin/busybox httpd`
> 
> I goes without saying that this is not meant to be web-facing.
> 
> Most things are explained in the --help output but the config file
> format is only explained in a source code comment. See below:
> 
> httpd.conf has the following format:
> 
> H:/serverroot     # define the server root. It will override -h
> A:172.20.         # Allow address from 172.20.0.0/16
> A:10.0.0.0/25     # Allow any address from 10.0.0.0-10.0.0.127
> A:10.0.0.0/255.255.255.128  # Allow any address that previous set
> A:127.0.0.1       # Allow local loopback connections
> D:*               # Deny from other IP connections
> E404:/path/e404.html # /path/e404.html is the 404 (not found) error page
> I:index.html      # Show index.html when a directory is requested
> 
> P:/url:[http://]hostname[:port]/new/path
>           # When /urlXXXXXX is requested, reverse proxy
>           # it to http://hostname[:port]/new/pathXXXXXX
> 
> /cgi-bin:foo:bar
>           # Require user foo, pwd bar on urls starting with /cgi-bin/
> /adm:admin:setup
>           # Require user admin, pwd setup on urls starting with /adm/
> adm:toor:PaSsWd  # or user toor, pwd PaSsWd on urls starting with /adm/
> .au:audio/basic   # additional mime type for audio.au files
> *.php:/path/php   # run xxx.php through an interpreter
> 
> A/D may be as a/d or allow/deny - only first char matters.
> Deny/Allow IP logic:
> - Default is to allow all (Allow all (A:*) is a no-op).
> - Deny rules take precedence over allow rules.
> - "Deny all" rule (D:*) is applied last.

I've been using boa just for this purpose for years:

* www-servers/boa
     Available versions:  
		~	0.94.14_rc21 "~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64" [doc]
     Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
     Description:         A very small and very fast http daemon.

It can be easily locked down for internet facing roles.

I've also used thttpd (you can throttle its bandwidth if that's important in 
your network), but it's probably more than required for this purpose:

* www-servers/thttpd
     Available versions:  
			2.25b-r7 "amd64 ~hppa ~mips ppc sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd" [static]
		~	2.25b-r8 "~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" 
[static]
     Homepage:            http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
     Description:         Small and fast multiplexing webserver.
-- 
Regards,
Mick