08-26-2010
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Originally Posted by
skynet_boy
i tested FreeBSD & Gnu/Linux (Fedora). both are similar. which of following is best choice for me? for networking?
For networking, either will work. As you say, they are very similar. (Purists will foam at the mouth at them being called "similar", but it's true: Mostly the same or compatible programs, in mostly the same places, used mostly the same way.) BSD and Linux implement firewalling very differently though. Again, there's not a clear winner, they're just different.
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and which of them has future (for e.g not discontinued after 2 years later)?
Debian Linux is a common favorite for servers, and has been around in one form or another since 1993 so probably isn't going away very soon. They're sometimes criticized for not changing quickly enough, but this is for support and stability reasons; they do backporting when other distros would just want you to upgrade..
Last edited by Corona688; 08-26-2010 at 03:07 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
micro-httpd
micro-httpd(8) User Commands micro-httpd(8)
NAME
micro-httpd - really small HTTP server
SYNOPSIS
micro-httpd DIRECTORY
OPTIONS
None.
DESCRIPTION
micro-httpd is a very small HTTP server all in 150 lines of code. It runs from inetd, which means its performance is poor. But for low-
traffic sites, it is quite adequate. It implements all the basic features of an HTTP server, including:
* Security against ".." filename snooping.
* The common MIME types.
* Trailing-slash redirection.
* index.html
* Directory listings.
To install it, add a line like this to /etc/inetd.conf:
micro-http stream tcp nowait nobody
/usr/sbin/micro-httpd micro-httpd dir
Make sure the path to the executable is correct, and change "dir" to be the directory you want to serve. You could add line like this to
/etc/services:
micro-http port/tcp #Micro HTTP server
Change "port" to the port number you want to use: 80, 8000, whatever. Restart inetd by sending it a "HUP" signal.
On some systems, inetd has a maximum spawn rate - if you try to run inetd services faster than a certain number of times per minute, it
assumed there is either a bug of an attack going on and it shuts down for a few minutes. If you run into this problem - look for syslog
messages about too-rapid looping - you will need to find out how to increase the limit. Unfortunately this varies from OS to OS. On
FreeBSD, you add a "-R 10000" flag to inetd's initial command line. On some Linux systems, you can set the limit on a per-service basis in
inetd.conf, by changing "nowait" to "nowait.10000".
Note that you can use micro-httpd to serve HTTPS, if you like, by running it from stunnel. First fetch and install stunnel - FreeBSD users
can just go to /usr/ports/security/stunnel and do a "make cert ; make install". Then as root run:
stunnel -p /usr/local/certs/stunnel.pem -d 443 -l
/usr/sbin/micro-httpd -- micro-httpd dir
Make sure the paths to the certificate and executable are correct, and again don not forget to change "dir" to the directory you want to
serve.
ENVIRONMENT
None.
FILES
None.
SEE ALSO
inetd(8) micro-inetd(8) xinetd(8)
AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1999 Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All rights reserved.
This manual page was updated by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later
version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.
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