[gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

[Eric S. Johansson]

I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with 
Apache configurations.  The final straw was when I took a working 
configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me 
why or where.

so I'm looking for an alternative.  What I need is something that has 
the following characteristics:

Virtual hosts
virtual hosts server name aliases
404 handler for different URLs (ie. http://www.demo.com/ and 
http://www.demo.com/sub/ should be able to have different handlers)
REDIRECT_URL properly set during a 404 events
CGI
directory level access control
works with mailman

there are probably other things that would be nice but I'll probably 
find them out when I try to use it.

I have already tried and failed with lighttpd.  it fails on the 
REDIRECT_URL test as well as rather difficult workarounds for server 
name aliases.

so I would welcome suggestions about alternative Web servers that are 
reasonably alive.

---eric
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