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ashben
March 8th, 2001, 05:32
Just came across a web server application, apparently smallest around (60k). Its called BadBlue (http://www.badblue.com) and supports:

* File Sharing (P2P)
* ISAPI/CGI/PHP
* MySQL
* Search Engine Capabilities

I've set it up on a Windows ME box and it works like a charm!
Hobbes
March 16th, 2001, 22:21
AWESOME! How did you get cgi to work correctly? Thanks for sharing this! This is a LOT easier to use than OmniHTTPD!
ashben
March 17th, 2001, 00:05
For CGI to work on BB, you've got to install CGI (or ActiveState Perl) in the same directory as badblue (badblue.exe to be precise). Then you may associate the CGI/Perl extensions to the relative executables in the ini file. Although I didn't spend too much time with CGI on BadBlue but I did love the support for PHP.

If you still face problems with the setup then checkout their forums at http://pub26.ezboard.com/bbadbluediscuss
Hobbes
March 17th, 2001, 11:00
Thanks. I'm going to go see if I can make this work...
Coolin
March 17th, 2001, 13:51
What a shame that BadBlue doesn't support SSI, I do hope they support it soon. Ok, ok, I know I can change my site so it uses PHP includes instead of SSI ones, but I'm too lazy to change my entire site ;)
Koolguy
March 17th, 2001, 15:04
It's pretty good for only 60k!
Epgs
March 17th, 2001, 15:07
i still like apache even though still bigger
Canuckkev
March 17th, 2001, 15:48
Originally posted by Epgs
i still like apache even though still bigger

But Apache isn't free, is it? I have this one called Xitami, but it's not that good.
Nick
March 17th, 2001, 16:06
Apache is completely free just like PHP and mySQL :-D
Coolin
March 17th, 2001, 16:12
BTW, Bad Blue isn't 60kb, it's 300kb.
Canuckkev
March 17th, 2001, 18:09
Originally posted by Nick
Apache is completely free just like PHP and mySQL :-D
Stupid warez site. I thought it must cost money cause I saw it on a warez site. Thanks for clearing up. I believe I will go download it now.
Epgs
March 17th, 2001, 23:12
yeah go to apache.org
ashben
March 18th, 2001, 00:55
Originally posted by Coolin
BTW, Bad Blue isn't 60kb, it's 300kb.

The ZIP is around 300k but the main executable is much smaller. BTW, Apache and BadBlue are not comparable. BadBlue is just a "thin" web server with inbuilt support for P2P.
Coolin
March 18th, 2001, 01:31
Originally posted by ashben

Originally posted by Coolin
BTW, Bad Blue isn't 60kb, it's 300kb. The ZIP is around 300k but the main executable is much smaller. BTW, Apache and BadBlue are not comparable. BadBlue is just a "thin" web server with inbuilt support for P2P. Bad Blue is actually 72.0kb :p

Anyway, no matter how small the executable is, it can't run on it's own properly. My IExplore.exe is 59.2kb, does that mean that Internet Explorer is smaller than Bad Blue? Nope.
atlas
March 18th, 2001, 17:42
I know someone who has gotten a webserver running on his Handspring Visor : now that's a small webserver.... :)

-mk
Coolin
March 18th, 2001, 20:14
Well, the server case may be small, but you don't know about the file size of the program :)
atlas
March 18th, 2001, 22:08
Heh... I don't think it was very big.

You can write your own web server quite easily. It won't do more than display pages for generic requests of static pages, but it's just a few line of perl code with sockets. I've done it in just like 1k then :)

-mk
atlascgi.com
ashben
March 20th, 2001, 22:42
Originally posted by Coolin

Originally posted by ashben

Originally posted by Coolin
BTW, Bad Blue isn't 60kb, it's 300kb. The ZIP is around 300k but the main executable is much smaller. BTW, Apache and BadBlue are not comparable. BadBlue is just a "thin" web server with inbuilt support for P2P. Bad Blue is actually 72.0kb :p

Anyway, no matter how small the executable is, it can't run on it's own properly. My IExplore.exe is 59.2kb, does that mean that Internet Explorer is smaller than Bad Blue? Nope.

It does take around 60k of memory. Read more: http://serverwatch.internet.com/reviews/web-badblue.html
Coolin
March 21st, 2001, 01:16
It does take around 60k of memory. Although the server does take 60kb of memory, it needs the rest of the files to function, so it technically not a 60kb server. Oh well, who cares? It is a tiny server, we can't doubt that fact.
ashben
March 21st, 2001, 01:52
Originally posted by Coolin

It does take around 60k of memory. Although the server does take 60kb of memory, it needs the rest of the files to function, so it technically not a 60kb server. Oh well, who cares? It is a tiny server, we can't doubt that fact.

010000110110111101101111011011000110100101101110 = 64k

;-)
Coolin
March 22nd, 2001, 08:44
Actually

010000110110111101101111011011000110100101101110 = Coolin

I'm gonna change my sig soon, this sig is so annoying.