[arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 01/03/2010 10:04 AM, RedShift wrote:
> 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

How about mini_httpd?

http://acme.com/software/mini_httpd/

DR