What's Your Favorite Web Server and Why?

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Real men use AOLserver.

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A fork of AOLserver still seem to be actively developed https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer

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Huh, TCL for web … Maybe I should dig up some old code …

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Just use netcat and expect with a loose parse and timeout in your switch loop.

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I think maybe I’d prefer a Ruby/Rack (and Roda) setup to nc/expect :stuck_out_tongue:

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I was trying to think of something as a worse extension of TCL, and expect is what came to mind.

You’re old as fuck, though, since you know what it is. :smiley:

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Web/TK? :thinking::grin:

Thanks! :wink:

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I thought ARexx was bad, but now you make me want to make a lesstif render which outputs standard Xlib and is converted to gifs.

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I like eggs.

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Here’s direct links to compare configuration of different web servers :

Monkey

http://monkey-project.com/documentation/1.5/

H2O

https://h2o.examp1e.net/configure/quick_start.html

Lighttpd

https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/TutorialConfiguration

Apache

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/configuring.html

Litespeed

https://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/webserver/config

nginX

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/full/

Caddy

https://caddyserver.com/tutorial/caddyfile

Cherokee

http://cherokee-project.com/doc/config_walkthrough.html

Hiawatha

https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/howto/example_configuration

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Another one is Tengine, it’s a fork of nginx with some other additions

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I believe OpenBSD also have their own relayd/httpd now …

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Tengine has support for QAT, which is pretty cool.

Simply put : the SSL negotiation / encryption / decryption part can speed up 30 - 60%

Cutting your time to first byte considerably.

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@anon40039896 would you use Lighty with PHP etc, or mainly when serving static content? :slight_smile:

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Lighty & PHP is a very good marriage, really.

It’s great for static content too.

In the past it would buffer large files in memory, leading to memory leaks, but that has been addressed a few years ago, now it uses temp files, while nginx (unlike Tengine) still buffers in memory.

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Just install php-fpm, or different approach?
(wiki links pointed to dead site and old articles on building php4-cgi …) :laughing:

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Pretty straightforward :+1: … It’d be quicker to just install and read README.Debian than trying figure it out through their wiki/documentation … :sweat_smile:

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Seems I will have to manually combine cert and key to combined file with Lighty, something like

cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/cert.pem > /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/combined.pem

But how to automate that part :thinking:
certbot cron/systemd timer runs often, but will only renew if it’s less than 30 days or something (IIRC), Should probably make a job that checks for changes to cert, I guess.