Re:OpenBSD's httpd gets URL rewrite
by stevekemp on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:13AM
(#17196894)
I used to use thttpd, but it is showing its age a little due to lack of updates.
For example one ommission that bit me is the lack of native-support for the X-Forwarded-For header, making it hard to use behind a reverse proxy. At the time I last looked the most common-patch for this didn't support IPv6 addresses which was a real show-stopper. Of course this was back in 2011 so things might have changed:
The original author stopped accepting patches to thttpd back in 2004 though, unless something has changed recently it's a little hard to recommend it for general-purpose use. That's lead to divergence in features between a few distributions.
(I run maybe 30 websites on one box. I run each one under a different UID, with a dedicated instance of lighttpd for each site - then I use haproxy/apache as the front-end. In the past I used thttpd, because I wanted things to be minimal, but I realized that thttpd was too minimal.)
For example one ommission that bit me is the lack of native-support for the X-Forwarded-For header, making it hard to use behind a reverse proxy. At the time I last looked the most common-patch for this didn't support IPv6 addresses which was a real show-stopper. Of course this was back in 2011 so things might have changed:
https://blog.steve.fi/ipv6_and_thttpd.html
The original author stopped accepting patches to thttpd back in 2004 though, unless something has changed recently it's a little hard to recommend it for general-purpose use. That's lead to divergence in features between a few distributions.
(I run maybe 30 websites on one box. I run each one under a different UID, with a dedicated instance of lighttpd for each site - then I use haproxy/apache as the front-end. In the past I used thttpd, because I wanted things to be minimal, but I realized that thttpd was too minimal.)