From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 23:18:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.cts.COM (cts21612089241.cts.com [216.120.89.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B507037B423 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heyjoe@localhost.cts.COM) Received: (from heyjoe@localhost) by localhost.cts.COM (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f385OSe09919 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:24:28 -0700 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:24:28 -0700 From: Joe Heuring To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimal web server install Message-ID: <20010407222428.E8519@Joe H> References: <20010407185341.B8519@Joe <20010407185341.B8519@Joe H> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tayers@bridge.com on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:35:19PM -0600 X-Operating-System: Linux heyjoe 2.2.16-22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:46:42PM -0700, joe heuring wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:35:19PM -0600, Tim Ayers wrote: > >>>>> "J" == Joe Heuring writes: > > J> Hello, I would like to install a personal apache server on FreeBSD. > J> It would sit behind it's own firewall. > > Do you mean you want a server that only you (or only people inside > your firewall) will access? What types of web stuff do you plan to > serve? Just HTML pages? some CGI scripts? Anything fancier than that? Oh I should of mentioned that. CGI, perl, php3, mysql, probably 2 nics. It will sit behind a fire-wall but will be connected to the world. By personal I mean a learning hobby thing but scale-able. > > J> Are there canned installations for this giving me just the minimal > J> packages, or a howto for compiling the kernel for such. The howto > J> would have to explain every package or at least a "trustme just > J> load these for your server and you can add the rest later if you > J> want" I started to go through the packages on an ftp install but > J> even with the descriptions I was unsure with to many of them so I > J> chose the canned install but got to much. > > Why are you concerned with "the minimal packages?" Disk space? Memory > usage? Complexity? mostly security and performance. I don't want anything gui, extra package or so is ok but I want a pretty lean compile. > > It sounds like you might want to check out thttpd: > http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/. This is a great, small, simple > server that excels at serving html and CGI without all the extra power > and flexibility (and complexity) of Apache. It can be installed from > the ports collection. OK > J> Also what nongui web browser is there like lynx? > > Lynx is pretty similar to lynx. ;-) If you are asking about _other_ > non-gui browsers, I know of 'w3m' and 'links' but I've never used > either so I have no comment. ah I hope that wasn't my mistake, a spelling error. I just ftp installed Free-BSD but aborted at the lynx prompt. I can just barely crawl with linux but I'm hoping FreeBSD will be not be so different that the learning curve is to steep. When lynx didn't work I hit despair. > > HTH and > Hope you have a very nice day, :-) > Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) > everything helps, in fact now I will re install. Oh maybe this isn't the right place to ask this, and as a newbie I probably shouldn't even be concerned with this, but I was reading a promo on Debian's "Linux Now" Does FreeBSD have anything like this? It seems like a good idea but maybe I'm just believing hype and not realizing other things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message