grab the latest source tarball
wget https://acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd-2.29.tar.gz sha256sum thttpd-2.29.tar.gz # 99c09f47da326b1e7b5295c45549d2b65534dce27c44812cf7eef1441681a397 thttpd-2.29.tar.gz tar xzf thttpd-2.29.tar.gz cd thttpd-2.29/
eventually add index without extension.
note index.cgi is already in the list
vi config.h #define INDEX_NAMES "index", "index.html", "index.htm", "index.xhtml", "index.xht", "Default.htm", "index.cgi"
eventually make text/html the default for serving files w/o extension
vi libhttpd.c char* default_type = "text/html; charset=%s";
build
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var echo $MAKEFLAGS make
install
grep ^www /etc/group groupadd -g 32 www # slackware ls -ld /usr/local/man/man1/ mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1/ make install cp -i contrib/redhat-rpm/thttpd.conf /etc/ chmod 644 /etc/thttpd.conf
decide what user the daemon will use
grep ^no /etc/passwd # --> nobody will be used by default grep ^no /etc/group # --> nogroup
as an alternative
groupadd thttpd useradd --system -s /sbin/nologin -k /dev/null -d /noexist -g thttpd -u 32766 thttpd grep ^thttpd /etc/group grep ^thttpd /etc/passwd