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in reply to Simple command line web server for running cgis.

I have now taken to using boa as the small webserver. I requires one config file (boa.conf) but that can be made generic and just copied over to the correct directory as needed. My config file is: 
Port 8080
 
ErrorLog  error_log
AccessLog access_log
CgiLog    cgi_log
 
DocumentRoot .
DirectoryIndex index.html
DirectoryMaker /usr/lib/boa/boa_indexer
DefaultType text/html
 
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi pl
 
MimeTypes /etc/boa/mime.types

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This then allows you to change to the correct directory and then to type boa -c . to start the server. It handles CGI errors well which makes it better than mini_httpd for this usage.

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