Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Bruce B]

I thought Puppy had a built in web server, but I can't locate it.

Any tips on how to setup a simple web server would be much appreciated.

[Bruce B]

Answering my own question. I found a little web server in /root/ghttpd called httpd.

It seems to work just fine although I don't know much about using it.

[BarryK]

Quisp uses that web server, its "nullhttpd" package.
I seem to recall that nullhttpd have virtually no documentation.
I also vaguely recall GuestToo getting some other web servers going, I think reported on the old forum.

[Bruce B]

Thank you Barry. The configuration file gives a little hint about how it works. I copied the necessary files to another directory under root/.usr/ghttpd

I don't know cgi so I didn't setup a cgi directory. I just want it simple. You can run the web server on any port you want. So far it tests good. Maybe GuestToo will give his recommendation about what he things would be best to use.

[GuestToo]

i had a Monkey roxapp package uploaded at one time ... i could make it a dotpup

it used to be nullhttpd had a security hole, but they fixed it, so i think nullhttpd and monkey are about the same ... monkey has some security advisories, but they are just about the default cgi files, and they don't work in Puppy anyway (no Perl or PHP)

you can easily disable the cgi anyway

they say it's better to not run servers as root
you can su spot and run the server as spot ... you may need to put your config files in /root/spot though

my monkey roxapp ran as spot

it is very easy to setup and use
basically, put your web files in ghttpd/htdocs
you can put other files like zip files, mp3s, pictures in there too and they can be downloaded from your server

httpd doesn't have a convenient way to run/stop it though
i did make an xmessage script to start/stop the server ... i have it somewhere

you could make 2 scripts, and drag them to the desktop to create shortcuts, or put them in the menu, or just open the folder and click them ... these 2 scripts are about as simple as you can get:

#!/bin/sh
/root/ghttpd/httpd

#!/bin/sh
killall httpd

[menno]

From the CGI-BIN you can run scripts , such as Quinsp is , as Perl , Xbasic and others as Peu or Euphoria also compiled C programs .
PHP may be a problem because its run normely from the doc directory .
I didn't have the time to find out how to do it . I ame running the Lampp that is a compilation of PHP Perl Appache and some more . The only disadvantage is that it very large .

[GuestToo]

i made a Monkey dotpup
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18&start=87

[Bruce B]

You're incredible. Thanks for the Monkey server! Much appreciated!

[Bruce B]

GuestToo, the monkey pup package was really nice work. Thanks again.

Monkey works well at the address you assigned it: 127.0.0.1:51234

I tried to set it to run on 127.0.0.1:80 and all I've been able to get is a 'connection refused' message with the browsers.

I've set the configuration files to run it on port 80 but no go. Any ideas how to set it to run on port 80?

BTW - I tested port 80 to see if it was available by using httpd and it is and httpd works 127.0.0.1:80

[GuestToo]

if you read /root/monkey/conf/monkey.conf, it says:

[Bruce B]

Thanks that was very big of you. You could have just said, "Learn to read."

Since I didn't read careful enough, I'd never have figured it out without you.

[Guest]

Hey Bruce,

I've built a fully dynamic website using quisp and shsql that come packaged with puppy. All content from the website is stored in the shsql database and retrieved using quisp page code. I've found there are a few niggly little issues, but all can be overcome. I initially had problems with quisp not serving images, but this was resolved by using the full html url of the image in the <img src=""/>, rather than the relative path on the server.

eg "http://www.cooma.biz.tm/banner.png"

rather than "banner.png"

This is a lot slower (on my machine and connection), but it works. If you figure out a better way, please let me know

There is heaps of info available on how to set up a quisp website - Barry has provided some. If you go to Information Managers -> Quisp... and click on the examples link; there is enough to get you started.

I have just used Null httpd on Puppy, but I think Apache is a more secure choice for a production system.

Cheers

[BarryK]

It's on the to-do list to setup Quisp and nulhttpd running as a user, rather than as root.
This is what we do with didiwiki -- it runs as user "spot".
(see /root/spot).

What is your URL so I can see your Quisp pages?
...i think you posted something about this earlier, but I can't recall.
...a newsworthy item i think!

[thoughtjourney]

Hi Barry,

sorry about the delay in replying... I've been flat out with study, and haven't had much time for the fun things in life.

my website can be found at www.cooma.biz.tm

(or it will be in a few minutes... I'm testing the mono::live cd on my server machine at the moment)

I'm playing around with the styles at the moment, so it isn't very pretty, and I am in the middle of building a content management system. The skeleton is there, though. I am running the web server as a user (db). I'd be grateful for any feedback

cheers

[Nathan F]

Ijust tried this:


if you run Monkey as root, you can use port 80

Monkey will run as root if you change the line in AppRun from:
su -c $SM - nobody &
to $SM &

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have worked for me, as port 80 is still refused. I tried it with nulllhttp and I can acces port 80. Any help would be appreciated, as I'm still somewhat new to Linux in general.

Thanlks,

Nathan