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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 00:10:30 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Back in the day, I loved a lightweight and tiny web server called Cherokee. Sadly, it's no longer popular. The last stable release was almost 10 years ago. It had a neat little admin panel built in, and it was great for both testing and production for running personal websites. You can still check out its homepage[1[ and Wikipedia[2] entry.

   [1] https://cherokee-project.com/
   [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_%28web_server%29

   #opensource #linux #unix

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 00:14:43 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     after that, I used Lighttpd for some time, followed by Nginx. I still have Apache around, but Nginx is now the de facto standard for me. You can still find Cherokee in some routers and embedded Linux devices. I think it's due to its size. Most distro removed those packages now, but you can still file the older Dockerfile https://github.com/managedkaos/cherokee to play around it.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:01:51 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Root Moose

     @chris Yes, development has completely slowed down, and many issues are open on Github. Back in old days it was very active. Sometimes I wonder how many FLOSS-based apps and servers slowly faded away and died out. I suppose it's the nature of the universe. Nothing lasts forever. But, I will always be thankful to those who wrote it and released their hard work :)

   • Root Moose (chris@root.moose.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:01:54 JST Root Moose

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     @nixCraft I can't believe I've never heard of this web server before! Amazing. Thanks for bubbling it up. Sadly, looks like it is a dead project.

   • François 🇺🇦 (frankaulux@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:25:23 JST François 🇺🇦

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     @nixCraft

     Don't know what you use it for, but for a really barebone server on my internal network, I just use

     busybox httpd -h /www/data -p 8080