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nginx made it into the base install? That's another fairly significant, at least in my mind, vote of confidence for nginx.
by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
nginx made it into the base install? That's another fairly significant, at least in my mind, vote of confidence for nginx.
- sarnowski 14y agoNginx now overtakes the default Apache 1 as the new httpd on OpenBSD. In the process of integrating it, OpenBSD already gave back patches for more security (like chroot support). I am very excited about that decision.
- Rovanion 14y agoAny specific reason why they used Apache 1 instead of Apache 2. I guess the obvious answer would be security but, in what way?
- chrissnell 14y agoOpenBSD has maintained their own hardened fork of Apache 1.x for years. I think that switching to 2.x would be a monumental effort for them and set them back quite a ways in terms of security. I think that nginx is a great move for OpenBSD.
- bonetruck 14y agoLast I knew, it was less about the effort, more about the license. And if you really need/want Apache 2, it's available in the ports tree and as a package. #> pkg_add apache-httpd
- tobiasu 14y agoThe Apache License 2.0 was not acceptable.
- dchest 14y agoWhat do they use to launch CGI? Did they write something custom?
- danielweber 14y agoI used to use lighttpd on OpenBSD, but it ended up unusable from some critical SSL library mismatch issue a year or two ago. Switched to nginx and have been incredibly happy.
- kleiba 14y agoThis is clearly off-topic, but has anyone used Mongrel2 seriously enough to give an opinion on it?