I think lighttpd might be something like what you're looking for. It's pretty lightweight, fast enough and php/ruby/perl works with it (through fastCGI).
http://www.lighttpd.net/ And of course it's in portage :) Oscar Thursday 04 August 2005 15.08 skrev Steve [Gentoo]: > Having recently had hassle with dependencies for Apache2 for my > configuration, I had a sudden thought that I don't really need most of > the Apache features... and there are many http servers available in > portage. > > I can classify my priorities as essential and desirable: > > Essential : > * Must be secure against remote attacks. > * Must support username-and-password based authentication. > > Desirable : > * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address > (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server) > * As lightweight as possible (traffic volume would be minuscule - > server would be heavily loaded and low capacity.) > > Can anyone make suggestions as to good packages to investigate? > > Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list