Enable httpd in busybox image

[endersonmaia]

httpd is such an useful applet in busybox.

httpd
httpd [-ifv[v]] [-c CONFFILE] [-p [IP:]PORT] [-u USER[:GRP]] [-r REALM] [-h HOME] or httpd -d/-e/-m STRING

Listen for incoming HTTP requests

Options:

        -i              Inetd mode
        -f              Do not daemonize
        -v[v]           Verbose
        -c FILE         Configuration file (default httpd.conf)
        -p [IP:]PORT    Bind to ip:port (default *:80)
        -u USER[:GRP]   Set uid/gid after binding to port
        -r REALM        Authentication Realm for Basic Authentication
        -h HOME         Home directory (default .)
        -m STRING       MD5 crypt STRING
        -e STRING       HTML encode STRING
        -d STRING       URL decode STRING

From: http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

Mistakenly opened it here : https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/783

[jpetazzo]

I don't have a particular opinion so I'll ask to my busybox philosophical consultant... @tianon ? :)

[tianon]

Hahahaha -- if upstream recommends it, absolutely! :+1: :wink:

[jpetazzo]

Which one do you recommend?

I see 3 options and I don't know which one to use (or all of them?)

# BR2_PACKAGE_LIGHTTPD is not set
# BR2_PACKAGE_THTTPD is not set
# BR2_PACKAGE_TINYHTTPD is not set

[endersonmaia]

What’s the smaller ? Choose it!

[jpetazzo]

I actually have no idea at all :)

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Enderson Tadeu S. Maia < [email protected]> wrote:

What’s the smaller ? Choose it!

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[apatrushev]

rootfs.tar image sizes

Original: 3573760 BR2_PACKAGE_LIGHTTPD: 4188160 (+17.2%) BR2_PACKAGE_THTTPD: 3737600 (+4.6%) BR2_PACKAGE_TINYHTTPD: 3584000 (+2.9%)

[jpetazzo]

I vote for THTTPD ;-)

(LIGHTTPD is super cool too, but I think that if someone needs a "complex" web server, they can use Alpine and get more flexibility on the server choice)