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Old 4th April 2014
comet--berkeley comet--berkeley is offline
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
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Inclusion of the modified Apache 1.3 Web server will cease as of OpenBSD 5.6-release. [omna=8]httpd[/oman] is being removed from the base installation.
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I like the move to OpenSMTPD much better than the move to Nginx.

OpenSMTPD is simpler and easier to configure than Sendmail.

Nginx has less features than Apache and this is a problem for me.

Nginx does not process cgi-bin files and must pass these off to another process/web server.

Why do I need Nginx if I must have another web server around anyway in order to process cgi-bin files?

If I were doing high volume web transactions and needed a reverse-proxy, then Nginx is ideal. But I have a low volume server that uses cgi-bin so using Nginx just makes the process more complicated (less secure).

Last edited by comet--berkeley; 4th April 2014 at 09:45 PM. Reason: grammar
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