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Several days ago I encountered a program that logs data, and several cgi programs that fold spindle and mutilate it into a useful form.
So now I'm looking for a Linux webserver to execute these cgi scripts.
Let me begin by what I am not looking for. I am not looking for apache. On the machine I am running I am already using apache for some tasks. I don't want to spend a lot of time learning or mucking with it.
The kind of thing I am looking for. On Windows there is a nice web server called web savant. Setup can get complicated, but to simple serve a few web pages and cgi scripts, you need to only do a few things: specify port, base for html and directories for cgi. This is all done from a setup window.
Things I need: Does not need an acount with full system privileges. In fact I would rather it stick to some subdirectory. It should be easy to install and setup and easy to remove. Nothing fancy is required or wanted. I'm not looking for security because the machine can only be seen by the LAN. The LAN does not have any proxies running on it which would allow the machine to see or be seen by the internet.
I've tried several: thttpd which I could not get to execute anything ( despite a carefull reading of the instructions and running the code through a debugger ).
Xitami which refuse to allow me to enter cgi-bin. When I copy them to bin and specify that as my cgi directory it brings them up but does not execute them ( when I copy the same over to my apache directory they execute correctly ). Maybe it would help if they bothered to even write one page of documentation. ( Yes there is an online FAQ which is total crap because they don't bother to have any other kind of documentation, half the things they reffer to are undefined. )
Abyss. Maybe. I will take a little time to read the docs, but I am already impressed with the immense stupidity of the configuration. Console mode should at least allow you to use it until you define a username and password ( which it chokes on because the directories are setup wrong out of the box ).
Frankly having wasted a lot of time with these crappy servers ( the only thing they are good at is replacing apache, and apache works better than they do ) I have lost patience. Aside from download time, I expect the server to be up and running and serving CGI scripts in 5 minutes with the scripts in their present directories. Frankly Web Savant does this and I don't see why a linux server can't do this. And since I do much of this in Windows, and expect to do much more in Linux,
Also long experience with the net indicate to me that their are going to be promoting their square server into my round server need. I put some effort into describing what I need so that doesn't happen, but I expect some idiot to do it anyway. Please don't.
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