I used thttpd many years ago. It is tiny and fast. There are others. Joe Gray W5JG On Feb 11, 2013 3:01 PM, "Jim Lux" <jim...@earthlink.net> 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<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.