The basic idea is to start a server without any central configuration to maintain, and no need for any root access, hence generic virtual hosts features of Apache or lighttpd are not complete alternatives, as they at least require editing /etc/hosts. It uses the FastCGI backend (or “SAPI”) and can by default handle 3 concurrent [...]
You can now use genconf without linking or copying it inside the project. It also makes the usage of mksymlinks more or less optional if you just want to use spawn. Not much else too see apart from small bug fixes and documentation improvements. Download symfttpd 1.1.1. More information on GitHub. There is also a [...]
This version brings one huge usability change: you don’t have to restart spawn anymore when a file is added in the web/ directory root. Enjoy being truly lazy! Along with some miscellaneous enhancements, the output of the tools is now colored, and you can display lighttpd’s logs in the terminal with the -t option. As [...]
