txt-sysinstall scrapped

Julien Laffaye kimelto at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 13:04:50 UTC 2010


On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 07-11-2010 11:40, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
>> On 6.11.2010 6:17, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>> > Without putting much analysis into it, we talked about using lighttpd, which
>> > is BSDL.  As far as another service, it would be running for the install only
>> > which is in most circumstances something that happens locally.
>> >
>>
>> NGiNX might a worth a shoot as well. Seems like the development of
>> lighty has been somewhat "stalled", and Igor Sysoev seems like a FreeBSD
>> user himself too...
>
> I was about to suggest the same thing myself.  I use nginx everywhere
> nowadays.  It's both small and powerful, easy to setup and BSD licensed.
>

Mongoose [1] is a very small HTTP server. It is designed to be
embedded in C programs. Basically it is a lib, and a daemon.
I think it would perfectly replace Lighttpd/Nginx/Apache for the tasks
described.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/


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