CGI on CD for UNIX

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know of any "web server on CD" software that exists for UNIX systems?

The Zoom CGI Front End Page describes how to implement Microweb on Windows with the FE, which I have done successfully (works very nicely, I might add). But I can't seem to find an equivalent SW package to Microweb that would allow the FE to run in an UNIX environment.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Karl Hakkarainen
EMC

[David]

I don't know of any specialized software to do this, but it would seem to be possible to run the popular Apache package from CD.

It seems with a bit of configuration it can be made to run from a CD. I did some searching on the web and found a few pages giving details,
http://www.google.com.au/search?&q=r...apache+from+CD
But it still seems to have some limiations (like needing writable directories on a hard disk).

There are also literally hundreds of different mini Linux distributions. You could boot the entire O/S (and web server) from a CD. But this is probably not what you want.

Other light weight Linux web servers include,
httpd
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
http://www.acme.com/software/micro_httpd/
Boa
http://www.boa.org/

But we haven't tried running any of them from a CD in Unix or Windows.

Let us know how it goes.

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David

[David]

The other option is not to use a web server.

You could same the same techniques described here for the Zoom Front End, to come up with a Unix / linux CD solution.

You would need to port our existing C++ Windows source code to Linux however.

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David