[gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

[gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

[Steve [Gentoo]]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

[Oscar Carlsson]

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


Thursday 04 August 2005 15.08 skrev Steve [Gentoo]:
> 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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

[Christoph Gysin]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

[Steve [Gentoo]]

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?





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