[Soekris] small web server w/cgi-bin for net4501?

[James Golovich]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Darryl Okahata wrote:

>      Does anyone know of a small web server with cgi-bin support that I
> can run on the net4501?  I suppose I could build a minimal apache
> distribution, but I'm a bit concerned about the memory footprint.  I've
> already shrunk the ramdisk down to 8000 (and I may have to install cron
> to keep the logfiles in check).  I've found small http servers, but none
> with cgi-bin support.
> 

I've had good luck with mini_httpd
(http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/)

-rwxr-xr-x    1 james    james       32848 Apr  8 02:38 mini_httpd

32k and it does https (dynamically linked to libssl + libcrypto)

I just rebuilt it without https and its 30800.  Not a huge savings,
but if you already have the crypto libs for ssh you might as well go for
https.

from the README:

                    mini_httpd - small HTTP server
                      version 1.15c of 02may2001

mini_httpd is a small HTTP server.  Its performance is not great, but for
low or medium traffic sites it's quite adequate. It implements all the
basic features of an HTTP server, including:

  * GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
  * CGI.
  * Basic authentication.
  * Security against ".." filename snooping.
  * The common MIME types.
  * Trailing-slash redirection.
  * index.html, index.htm, index.cgi
  * Directory listings.
  * Multihoming / virtual hosting.
  * Standard logging.
  * Custom error pages.
....


James