[FGS] Preliminary mapserver package

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> I'd love to see us try out a stand-alone web server just for this 
>> project.  Anyway ideas?
>>
> 
> That may be the only option to have a self-contained distribution, and 
> if we do it then I would vote for using Apache, perhaps we could/should 
> build our own lite version and distribute it as a FGS package, running 
> on port 8080. The reason to go with Apache is that this is what most 
> systems use, that's what most people are used to configuring, and if you 
> start configuring your local FGS package it will be easy to port (copy) 
> your config to your real live server later on.

Daniel,

How big is Apache?  I am concerned that packaging up Apache is going to
significantly complicating things when the only thing we want to be able
to do is run cgi's which is pretty simple.

However, I don't feel to strongly one way or the other as long as we have
some sort of web server available.

Best regards,
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