Webserver as a commodity under OS4!!

Just installed thttpd webserver (downloaded from http://louise.amiga.hu/index.php?MENU=6) on my winuae machine.

One word: GREAT!

It's free, easy, light (not like Apache!), fast, stable (I turn it on and off with scout continuosly in the same session), no geek stuff needed, support for PHP and MySQL.
It's maker homepage is http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/.
Can you imagine how many web freelance developers who want to be productive can use it on our platform?
It can be another good point for the already smart Amiga platform.
Someone have already done something working on the net from their Amigas, just check around from some search engine!!
A useful tool will be a small and extremely simple commodity named "webserver" with config option appearing on the commodity graphic interface.
I'm sorry to say that I can't help practically making this program but there is a lot of clever guys out there who can do that!
I can help with motivation, ideas, graphic solution, documentation, interface design...

[Karlos]

Absolutely anything at all would be better than IIS 5 for Windoze 2000 Pro :-D

[Ilwrath]

Can you imagine how many web freelance developers who want to be productive can use it on our platform?

Sounds great....
now, if there were just a nice standards-compliant web BROWSER.  It's tough to develop what your browser can't render.  :-P (No offence to Aweb|iBrowse|Voyager teams -- developing a browser is really difficult...  But they just don't cut it.)  It'd be a major coup if someone could get Mozilla running.  At least then you'd have XHTML CSS and a more complete document object model.

[KennyR]

Why would you want a webserver as a commodity? Wouldn't it just be simpler to run it as an inetd, like all other tcp/ip services?

Ask yourself what advantages you gain from giving an app a commodities interface. Once you've done that, ask yourself why an http server would need them. I'm pretty sure it doesn't. ;-)

[Hammer]

What about unified control center?

[amigau]

it seems a bit slow to me (and I have DSL), but that might be the connection between you and me, not your fault.

I guess i'd say in response that the 3 different arexx webservers out there would be even 'lighter' and probably faster (the setups I have used with Arexx webserver don't even typically use 1MB of RAM while running, and they only 'run' when someone sends a request) but they don't have PHP support, so if that's a requirement, you'd have to use this one or the recently compiled amiga apache version that supports it.

Did you compile this from the source on the author's site, or get a binary from someone else?  What dev environment did you use if you compiled it yourself?

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com