[Voyage-linux] lighttpd vs thttpd

[Francois]

Dear Punky & Voyage users,

For what I have seen this morning, lighttpd and thttpd are very similar.
Both very light, support for cgi/php, fast, secure...

Small specific differences I know of:

+Some old benchmarking show lighttpd to be a bit faster, especially for
large file handling. Both are much faster than any apache system.

+Php can be compiled as a module for thttpd (it seems not to be supported on
newest thttpd versions) so it probably uses less space (I have a 7M php cgi
executable with lighttpd). Performance with lighttpd and fastcgi seem
similar.

+For configuration, lighttpd is very simple. I don't know about thttpd.

+More support, help & forums seem to be available for thttpd.

I think using thttpd can be nice also if you prefer. For these kind of
boards, maybe what matters most is used disk space and not performances, and
probably thttpd + php module is a good choice.

Maybe a good thing in voyage 0.2 would be to provide many packages for users
to customise their distribution depending on their needs and available space
after a basic install (different kernels, http server, php, ppp, quagga,
etc...) and thus having a lighter and customised voyage. Everyone could make
and share packages compiled for specific platforms. What do you think about
this?

Francois.




-----Mensaje original-----
De: Punky Tse [mailto:punkytse at gmail.com] 
Enviado el: miércoles, 30 de marzo de 2005 3:31
Para: Francois
CC: voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk
Asunto: Re: [Voyage-linux] Custom kernel for voyage and other small problems

Francois, 

There has been some problems reported about the high packet loss when
running WDS and bridge using madwifi driver.  voyage-0.1 is using the
madwifi
cvs snapshot at 20050109.  Unfortunately, madwifi still does not
provide any solid "versioned" release, so it is unlikely to know which
snapshot is considered as stable.

To be honest, I am quite happy with the hostap and prism54 drivers. 
At lease, there are no such problem reported (because fewer and fewer
people are using it?).

For temperature sensor, it didn't work out on wrap.  Before 0.1
release, I considered to drop them from the kernel, but I finally
decided to include it.  It will benefit somebody when they install
voyage in their old pentium 3 motherboard with a temperature sensor.

I didn't (or forgot) to enable USB support in the kernel, so you will
have to wait for a new kernel update or a new voyage-0.2pre release. 
But this will not happen soon.

I had evaluated lighttpd, tried to build a deb package but fail on cpp
preprocessor check.  Can you compare it with thttpd?  I should have
said in the list that I planned to use thttpd in the coming voyage
releases.

- Punky
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:55:04 +0200, Francois
<fdelawarde at wirelessmundi.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to be able to compile a custom kernel for the voyage to test
> latest madwifi from cvs and add few other custom options, anyone knows a
> quick procedure to cross-compile for WRAP platforms, any patches to apply
> for reboot problems or things like that?
> 
> Had a few performance problems with madwifi (signal power varying, very
slow
> DHCP UDP broadcast, and speed/stability problems in 802.11g mode). Anyone
> suffered something similar and could give me a hint?
> 
> Did someone succeeded in getting temperature sensor to work in I2C
secondary
> bus (LM77 not working for me with lm_sensors)? What about USB?
> 
> Another thing, I tested lighttpd with php on a wrap board, it works like a
> charm, looks secure and supports cgi and fast-cgi for those who need
speed,
> I would recommend voyage users needing http server using it for a possible
> web interface.
> 
> Thanks for help!!! ;)
> 
> Francois.
> 
> PS: Don't forget to patch dnsmasq to the latest, as bugtrack just informed
> of dns vulnerabilities for current version used in voyage!
> 
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