Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

[Chris Brennan]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:

Hi,
>   Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up
> files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing
> the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for
> my Kindle Fire as well as other computers on _only_ my home network.
> Sort of an in-house Mark's Watch Instantly setup. I've now got a few
> hundred gigabyte of mp4 files ripped with Grant's suggested app
> Handbrake. They look good on my desktop playing in xine. When the
> Kindle Fire arrives I'd like to have a web server running on my
> private network that Silk (Amazon's KF broswer) could access, possibly
> presenting nothing but the alphabetical folders that the video files
> are in, and then if I select one it starts streaming that file.
>
>   My main issue isn't really the lightest in terms of memory or CPU
> usage, but rather something that's VERY easy to setup the config so
> that I don't have to spend much time reading manuals.
>
>   From browsing around a lot of pages on the web it seems that there
> are a number of small & light servers (in terms of memory anyway) in
> portage. Some names: fnord, thttpd, boa, monkeyd & cherokee. Does
> anyone know if one of those would fit my main need of just being
> extremely simple to setup and keep running for this one purpose?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
>
nginx comes to mind, very easy to set up and it should be able to serve
your video's w/o issue...


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