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On Saturday 26 January 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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> Hello all. |
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> I am looking for a web server for my static website in-developing |
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> projects. I just want the basic features and easy-to-configure. However |
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> what I mean "basic" looks a bit different than other people's. I wish |
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> it to be able to do content negotiation (a.k.a. a browser asks for |
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> "my_mom" and gets my_mom.html.zh or my_mom.html.en depending on |
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> preferred language of the browser). I also wish it can handle HTTP 1.1. |
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> I could not find one. "eix -S negotiation" didn't get me any result. |
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> (on the other hand "aptitude search ~dnegotiation" did suggested me |
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> fnord can do content negotiation, although it's only partially |
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> implemented.) |
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> My question is: |
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> 1. Can you please suggest some web server that can do content |
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> negotiation, besides apache? |
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"negotiation" is not a recognised USE flag: |
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# euse -i negotiation |
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global use flags (searching: negotiation) |
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no matching entries found |
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local use flags (searching: negotiation) |
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no matching entries found |
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therefore I am not sure that any packages in portage use it. (Apache uses the |
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module mod_negotiation which is compiled in by default). Have you looked at |
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www-servers/lighttpd, or www-servers/thttpd? |
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> 2. Can you please tell me how do you usually find out if some |
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> of the packages in portage can do content negotiation? |
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Sorry, can't help with this. Perhaps others more knowledgeable in the |
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features of different http servers can advise here. I would think that it is |
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a matter of searching in their respective project websites and then reading |
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their documentation for each package under /usr/portage/www-servers/. |
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Alternative, emerge, try it out, unmerge and so on. |
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BTW, I am not sure if some PHP scripting would offer this facility to simpler |
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http servers, which do not support it natively like apache. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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