Re: [Devil-linux-develop] webserver and php

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > And according to boa.org, thttpd is "very similar to Boa", and I see we
> > already have thttpd in DL...
> 
> So a step closer, 

Why was thttpd originally added to DL?

> except if John really needs the real apache.

I hope not.  Apache is HUGE compared to boa & thttpd:

  http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/benchmarks.html

One other advantage of thttpd over boa is thttpd supports "basic auth",
and boa doesn't.

> > PHP can be compiled as a standalone CGI program, so it should work with 
> > any web server that supports CGI.
> 
> I guess Axis did choose PHP3 because of the lower memory footprint
> than PHP4.

Could be.  We should probably go with PHP4 so we are sure to have the
latest security updates.

 - BS