There are numberous web servers that are small and light weight, some examples are boa ( www.boa.org ) and HTTPd http://www.nongnu.org/mini-httpd/
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 14:01 -0800, Jim Lux wrote: > I'm intrigued by the possibility of using a lightweight web server to > provide a management/user interface to test equipment or appliances > (e.g. like the NTP server recently discussed, or a box with mixers and > counters). > > I've built some web interfaces to very small things using Arduinos and > Rabbits, and it works ok for simple stuff (turning on and off switches), > but as soon as you start looking at a bit more complexity (e.g. you want > to move files around), a bit more sophistication on your server seems > useful. Or, for instance, if you have a DDS you want to program to > follow a particular sequence of frequencies (e.g. to match a particular > Doppler profile, in my case). Or a data acquisition application. > > The appeal that the "user client" is that any old web-browser is pretty > generic. > > I've done this "sort of" by exposing a directory as a public share (SMB) > and then "browsing" to that file, using the file:// mechanism, but it > seems that actually having a real server might be useful (for things > like POST from a form, for instance) > > But, on the other hand, it seems that something like Apache is a bit > much to manage. > > Is there something that runs under Linux on a lightweight single board > PC (Raspberry pi or Intel Mini-ITX Atom mobos) that isn't too much of a > pain, and doesn't require you to be a full time web server administrator > to make it work? > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.