[arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

[andrej.gelenberg at udo.edu]

RedShift writes:

> Hi all
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is
> able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than
> apache and preferably even smaller than lighttpd. It doesn't need a whole
> lot of features, it only needs to be able to execute CGI scripts.
> 
> I have tried a few: nanoweb (which is written in php as well) but has some
> problems with CGI scripts and when it runs in multi process mode it brings
> the system load up to exactly 1.00. Nullhttpd, but it's old and
> unmaintained. Tinyhttpd isn't up for the job as well (kept crashing at
> times).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Glenn

Hi,

may be it is for you: http://docs.python.org/library/basehttpserver.html
http://docs.python.org/library/cgihttpserver.html#module-CGIHTTPServer.

Regards,
Andrej