Re: httpd on install cd
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:31:52PM +0200, Michael Welle wrote:
>
> My woody cd contains 585028 kB. Space enough. The main work is to
> choose a server and compile it for the supported platforms. I can do
> this for the platforms I can reach.
> Hm, but are there any disadvantages?
yes: 1) you have to decide what binary platforms you are going to
support with webservers (MS-DOS, Win9x, WinNT, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX,
VMS, Xenix, Minix, GNU/Linux, HP-UX, MacOS, LDOS, etc). then you have to
break down each to their most backward compatible roots
2)once you have all the paltforms you are going to compile for, you have
to get that platform to compile the chosen webserver!
mind you, the dhttpd is about 28K compiled on the i386 GNU/Linux
platform. for each architecture/OS you compile for.
3) then the startup script has to be written. you can use the uname tricks
for the UNIX like ones (where you have a POSIX shell available) or
whatnot.
you can reduce some of that by requiring a robust enough scripting
language (perl, python) on the host. this may not be a bad route. or you
can ship the sources of the webserver, and depend upon a local compiler.
the more you want to support, the bigger this blows up and becomes a
maintenance nightmare.
how much work do you want to do towards it?
you can always mount the cdrom under the webroot ;)
as i said, it's not a bad idea: but better solutions exist.
-john
okay, if cp is not l33t enough, rsync the files over !
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