Web Server

[Thor]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a small/lightweight web server that will run on a Gentoo box. My requirements are to be lightweight and quickly configurable for this. Also it needs to hold 1-2 small web pages with support for light traffic email. Please post why you think it is good if you have experience working with a particular one. Thank You

[Aiden]

Apache/2 works great.

[Thor]

Yes it does. I have it running right now on something. I guess apache has been doing fine. Just wandering if there were any other ones ppl had experience with. I'll probably stick with apache though. It seems to stay stable and has modules galor.

[pozican]

apache is what you want for a webserver.

qmail will be your first choice for email.

Personally, I send very little email (just for little scripts and such) so I set up sendmail.

-poz

[Thor]

I agree. I did find an abundance of small of really tiny web servers through portage but couldn't pull the trigger on going with something else other than apache. Apache is where it's at, although I haven't finished setting it up on my other Gentoo system I'm running into some strange problems. When I type in http://localhost it brings me to a page that says "It works!" and not the Apache welcome page or the /index page. I haven't set this up on Linux before. Any reason why? Or is that how it is and I haven't put in enough modules yet?

[Aiden]

I agree. I did find an abundance of small of really tiny web servers through portage but couldn't pull the trigger on going with something else other than apache. Apache is where it's at, although I haven't finished setting it up on my other Gentoo system I'm running into some strange problems. When I type in http://localhost it brings me to a page that says "It works!" and not the Apache welcome page or the /index page. I haven't set this up on Linux before. Any reason why? Or is that how it is and I haven't put in enough modules yet?

I haven't set up apache in a while and don't have it set up now, but iirc there's a default folder it looks in. Look in /var/www/ for a folder like apache-default/ or something similar. That's where the "It works!" page is.

There's settings somewhere in your apache config to set the default path for root, change it from apache-default/ to /.. I think this is how it was, someone correct me if I'm wrong

[Thor]

Yeah I guess you put whatever you want in /var/www/localhost/htdocs and whatever is in that will show up when you http://localhost to it...Or redirect to it. I'm rusty on server setup still ironing out all the details here. Don't be surprised if I have more detailed server related questions.

[B-Con]

lighthttpd? Designed for those who want features without the need for the bulk of Apache. It still handles loads really well, Reddit uses (or used to use, haven't checked in a while) it.

[Thor]

I guess it's been my theory that going with a smaller/lesser known server would of course save space, but be less susceptible to the bulk of exploits out there. I believe I saw lighthttpd in portage, I may check it out. All I was really going to use it for was like maybe a page or two and couple of small media like things.Thanks.

[B-Con]

If you literally just want to serve a couple static pages, you could even try wbox: http://www.hping.org/wbox/ , it'll do just that. Not sure what you mean by multimedia, but wbox won't do anything fancy. It's designed to just be there for testing. I just keep it around as a way to set up a server to transfer files to someone else if I don't want to bother with a flash drive.

[Thor]

If you literally just want to serve a couple static pages, you could even try wbox: http://www.hping.org/wbox/ , it'll do just that. Not sure what you mean by multimedia, but wbox won't do anything fancy. It's designed to just be there for testing. I just keep it around as a way to set up a server to transfer files to someone else if I don't want to bother with a flash drive.

Haven't got a chance to get home and DL that yet but it looks like it would be perfect for what I need after reading through the page.