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OpenBSD has its own web server called "httpd".
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It's possible on OpenBSD to install Nginx and Apache (ca...
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I find OpenBSD httpd to be the less annoying nginx. I serve a couple of FastCGI applications and a PHP script over mine. Works without any problems.
tux0r, thank you for the precious information about your practices!
I succeeded in building a Python Django2 server this year, too.
Please let me know if you have should-dos or shouldn't dos on using OpenBSD httpd :)
Don't use Python behind it. WSGI is a completely different concept.
Hmmm, you mean web server gateway interface is completely different from fast common gateway interface.
Truth sometimes tastes bitter!
I'm in trouble because there are several Python libraries and frameworks I want to use😅
I'll be in search for some solution🤔
Thank you very much!
You can use httpd as a reverse proxy for uwsgi:
uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/lates...
Hi George,
Thank you for your kind commenting.
It's a happy fact that OpenBSD's httpd is in combination with Python's uwsgi.
With a combination of OpenBSD's httpd and uwsgi/supervisord, I've recently hosted a Wagtail website which is based on Django 😉
reyk/httpd was last updated 3 years ago, 2015 issues are still open, there's no http/2 support, and I'm pretty sure it lacks a lot of other features. Why would anyone want to use it? Security isn't everything.
Hi, Pouya :)
Thank you for your commenting.
It seems the Github repo is inactive although I don't know about the fact, for the releases tags are just about 5.7 base and 5.8 base.
OpenBSD projects have their own official CVS src repository, which is accessible in openbsd.org .
OpenBSD httpd has been recently being updated. For example, the latest release, 6.6, changelog is in openbsd.org/plus66.html .
Well, yes, security isn't everything. It's up to one's values.
As to me, the simplicity, clean licenses and also the difficulty with less examples are the points as well as its security. In a word, I enjoy OpenBSD. lol 😆
If you're interested, here's how I use it in conjunction with Ruby On Rails. httpd only does the ACME-challenges for TLS-certificates:
github.com/basicfeatures/openbsd-r...
Thank you and have a wonderful day!
Hi, cloud69420, thank you for your sharing! Really really great.
I'm happy to know
relayddefinitions and arcscript are used when running Ruby on Rails apps in OpenBSD 😃 Well, I have tried another way, that was with Supervisord. It didn't sit well with my favor 😅Also maybe worth mentioning: openbsd.org/papers/httpd-asiabsdco...
Thank you, again, so much!
Haha, although, of course, I knew it, I haven't read it thoroughly. I will😁
Nice intro. Short and to the point. Thanks.
HJM, thanks, too, for your cheering commenting ☺️
Wonderful article - keep up the good work!
Thank you for your comments cheering me up.
I still spend a happy time with OpenBSD httpd 😊