Re: Seeking LDP server recommendations

On 17 March 2018 at 09:09, Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@oerc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A team I'm working with are looking to do explore some designs using LDP (
> http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/) - as part of this, we're looking to stand up
> an off-the-shelf LDP server for our tests.
>
> We've looked at a few of the options mentioned at
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/LDP_Implementations, but so far the ones we've
> tried have been less than fully satisfactory:
>
> - Apache Marmotta - project appears to be dead (not updated since 2014?)
> - ldnode - didn't get running, possibly becauxe of complex node
> dependencies
>

ldnode is now called node-solid-server -- it implements LDP and a few other
things :

https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server

It's actively maintained.  Feel free to drop in to our chat room if you
have installation issues.

https://gitter.im/solid/node-solid-server

It's also now possible to install via docker.


> - gold - this is what we're using for now, as it was easy enough to get
> running.  But it's prone to unexpected failures without any diagnostics
> (e.g. fails silently when loading Turtle data with comments; returns
> garbage data).  It is also a Solid container, there is ACL configuration
> that complicates the setup if not run in debug mode.
>

Gold isnt actively maintained but if someone with Go experience had time to
help out, that would be welcome!


>
> What we're looking for is an LDP server that:
>
> 1. supports Basic LDP containers (direct/indirect not needed)
> 2. is easy to install (on a Linux host server) (*)
> 3. is easy to configure (*)
> 4. is reasonably reliable and maintained
>
> (*) these might amount to simply having reliable "getting started"
> documentation
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> #g
>
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