Questions[thttpd](server)

A bsic web server such as python SimpleHTTPServer or THTTPD reads static files with least process; thus is quite fast. Normally, adding more features to create an advanced web server (but still lightweight such as nginx) will slow down this process.

Can an advanced web server play a trick to make the process faster? or simpler than simplest is impossible, and the simplest is fastest way to read static files? I mean can nginx (or other lightweight web servers which claim to be fast) be faster than THTTPD (or other basic web servers with minimal process)?

And what about CGI scripts, as HTTPD and python CGIHTTPServer can simply execute cgi scripts.

I run thttpd to serve some perl files. But for some reason the daemon is exiting every second or third day. Strangely it's always at 6.25 am. Here are some lines from syslog:

Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]: up 86404 seconds, stats for 86404 seconds: 
Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]:   thttpd - 25 connections (0.000289338/sec), 1 max simultaneous, 625000 bytes (7.23346/sec), 2 httpd_conns allocated 
Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]:   libhttpd - 30 strings allocated, 8200 bytes (273.333 bytes/str) 
Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]:   map cache - 0 allocated, 0 active (0 bytes), 0 free; hash size: 0; expire age: 1800 Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]:   fdwatch - 20902 selects (0.24191/sec) 
Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]: timers - 2 allocated, 2 active, 0 free Nov 10 06:25:40 b1 thttpd[6370]: exiting

Any ideas?

I run nginx for my web server but wanted to quickly toss up thttpd so I could do some maintainenace using either vqadmin or qmailadmin.

Those files are located at: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/qmailadmin and /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi.

My /etc/thttpd.conf is:

host=127.0.0.1
port=8000
user=apache
logfile=/var/log/thttpd.log
pidfile=/var/run/thttpd.pid
dir=/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
nochroot
cgipat=**.cgi

When I use lynx to go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi, thttpd tosses a 404. Any idea how to get this working? Many thanks.

I need to tunnel my SSH server through an HTTPS port using thttpd (I can change to lighttpd if necessary, but I'm trying to avoid installing Apache since it's an underpowered box). I haven't been able to find anything that confirms or denies this ability of thttpd.

is the thttpd webserver project still alive? Should this sever be used for a new project? The latest release looks like it was in December of 03 and the mailing list archive stops in may of 08.