Hi support!
Why uHTTPd still present in Gl firmware? As I see you are using NGNIX, no?
uHTTPd is unused, so it just takes space from router's flash. Maybe just remove it, since it already on NGNIX?
Also it will prevent situations discussed on this forum earlier
@alzhao (sorry if I pinging wrong person), can you please take a look?
Which router are you using and what does opkg list-installed show?
uhttpd is used by luci.
In the latest firmware uhttpd is used for Luci. Luci has problems with Nginx.
In some old firmware, uhttps is there but not used. Agree that it should be just removed.
I strongly disagree. Nginx should be removed. It's bloat. There's no need for a multi-process, web server capable of c10k requiring over 15x the flash space and 37.4x the RAM when OWRT is a single seat administered, embedded system.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 673.6K Oct 17 2024 /usr/sbin/nginx*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44.4K Oct 17 2024 /usr/sbin/uhttpd*
ps -w | grep nginx | grep -v 'grep' && ps -w | grep uhttpd | grep -v 'grep'
4373 root 7008 S nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -g daemon off;
4523 root 11188 S nginx: worker process
4524 root 10704 S nginx: worker process
4525 root 10288 S nginx: worker process
4526 root 10896 S nginx: worker process
3905 root 1560 S /usr/sbin/uhttpd -f -h /www -r router -x /cgi-bin -u /ubus -t 60 -T 30 -k 20 -A 1 -n 3 -N 100 -R -p 12
(firmware 4.6.8-release1)
There's no benefit to Nginx when it doesn't even have proper WebDAV support.
Yes, uhttpd is more lightweight.
GL GUI uses nginx I guess the reason is the early firmware development, nginx was chosen to be able to handle our own API.
If future everything is right, we may consider swapping a lighter http server.
I can't imagine the amount of developer time/'technical debt' that's required for a custom API just to run on OWRT. I've only briefly looked at some of the GL scripts but I can't imagine why write completely custom scripts when uci itself is so easily scriptable.
I could see a custom daemon tunneled thru HTTPS as a endpoint for the GL.iNet app, though... or just push/pull over dropbear:
... but it sure would be nice to get back that RAM from Nginx given LuCI runs Lua to interface with uci.
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