Folks, I have a slightly different use-case for wwwoffle - I scoop websites on one machine with wwwoffle, tar up the files, and pass them to another machine via UUCP.
It allows me to provide web services for disconnected networks. I am upgrading to the latest version of wwwoffle, and have bumped into a problem or two. First, using Ubuntu Feisty and wwwoffle 2.9a-2 the creation of root certificates is not reliable on startup - I often get an empty file. There seems to be some discussion of this on the list, and maybe I need a newer version. Second, the path to those certificates seems to be hardcoded into the binary, at /etc/wwwoffle/certificates. I don't really like this, as I create dynamic wwwoffle instances on the fly, in /var/tmp/wwwoffle2345/* as a different user (uucp) and now it tangles up with my 'upstream' wwwoffle instance on the same machine. First prize for me is a way to disable all the SSL stuff completely, as all this happens unattended so SSL is not that necessary. For the moment I now run the master wwwoffle as the uucp user (ugh) and all instances share the certificates. Next best would be to be able to configure the certificate path, so I can have it as a different owner. 'strings' on the binary (have not looked at the source yet) suggests ownership and permissions of the certificates is important. Ideas ? Cheers, Andy!
