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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:22:40 +0100
From: lejatorn@gmail.com
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Subject: [9fans] plan9 httpd/pegasus on unix?
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Hi all,

I have a machine running FreeBSD that I want to set up as a web server
(among other things). It's not powered by plan9 because I also want to
run libtorrent/rtorrent on it, and afaik there's no bittorrent client
yet for plan9.
I used to run thttpd because I want something small, relatively secure,
and simple, but now I would like to set up something plan9-ish if
possible. One of the reasons being that I found Kenji's rc based cgi
thingie he showed at iwp9 quite nice, and I'd like to eventually use
that (especially since it would be a nice rc learning exercise for me
to port all my current perl cgis in rc.)

So my question is what is my best option?
Setting up inferno on FreeBSD and run httpd from there? Setting up plan9
in xen (or lguest) and set httpd inside that? Try to port plan9's httpd
to unix, using p9p as an example? Just stick to some unix httpd because
it's not worth it? (I guess it wouldn't be that hard to get thttpd to
run some rc cgis actually).

Please bear in my mind that this is an old box (p200, 256MB ram), so the
solution has to be light (for example I'm not even sure it's possible to
achieve the xen or inferno one). Well, I guess it can't be worse than
apache2, which actually used to run on that machine...

Thanks,
Mathieu.

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