Date: 07 Apr 2001 21:35:19 -0600 From: Tim Ayers <tayers@bridge.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimal web server install Message-ID: <uvgog12tk.fsf@tim.bridge.com> In-Reply-To: <20010407185341.B8519@Joe H> References: <20010407185341.B8519@Joe H>
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>>>>> "J" == Joe Heuring <heyjoe@cts.com> writes: J> Hello, I would like to install a personal apache server on FreeBSD. J> It would sit behind it's own firewall. Do you mean you want a server that only you (or only people inside your firewall) will access? What types of web stuff do you plan to serve? Just HTML pages? some CGI scripts? Anything fancier than that? J> Are there canned installations for this giving me just the minimal J> packages, or a howto for compiling the kernel for such. The howto J> would have to explain every package or at least a "trustme just J> load these for your server and you can add the rest later if you J> want" I started to go through the packages on an ftp install but J> even with the descriptions I was unsure with to many of them so I J> chose the canned install but got to much. Why are you concerned with "the minimal packages?" Disk space? Memory usage? Complexity? It sounds like you might want to check out thttpd: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/. This is a great, small, simple server that excels at serving html and CGI without all the extra power and flexibility (and complexity) of Apache. It can be installed from the ports collection. J> Also what nongui web browser is there like lynx? Lynx is pretty similar to lynx. ;-) If you are asking about _other_ non-gui browsers, I know of 'w3m' and 'links' but I've never used either so I have no comment. HTH and Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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