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[ts-7000] Re: Busybox's web server missing

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Busybox's web server missing
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:28:38 -0000
--- In  Jim Jackson <> wrote:
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> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, bburtan65 wrote:
> 
> > Busybox is supposed to have a lightweight web server but the version on 
> > TS-Linux doesn't have it.  Is this a version issue or did TS remove it 
> > for some reason?
> 
> When you compile busybox, you can configure what is included and what is 
> not - obviously that component was not configured in. There are several 
> other components that TS did not include. Just rebuild it with everything 
> you need.
>

Just read up on busybox. It has a complex .config style feature configuration 
like the linux kernel. 

Clearly TS considered it's internel web server too simplistic and opted not to 
build this feature and to replace it with a real web server: apache.

BB has moved on a lot since BusyBox v1.00-rc2 that went into the TS72xx boards. 
That is FIVE years old now. I doubt whether inetd has grown much in 
functionality since the point of BB is to remain small.

If they don't give enough space for sensible error reporting I'd guess the web 
server is ... basic.

A number of important bugs have been removed in those intervening five years so 
there's a lot of reason to update and rebuild anyway.

(Like awk can actually count upto three and get the answer right now ;) and 
security issues )

lighttpd seems well respected if you want something smaller than apache.






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