Monkey HTTP for Raspbian

Quick tip:

If you’re planning to run Monkey httpd on Raspbian, don’t use the official Raspbian repository to pull the package. Why Monkey? Apparently its 16% faster than Nginx.

Follow the instructions here as the official repository packages are really really old.

I originally had problems with Symlinks not working even though someone on the bug tracker said it does work.

Turns out, my monkey version is 0.9.3, while the current stable (at this point of writing) is 1.3.0.

Update: I shouldn’t be pulling from the main monkey-project repository, instead, I should be using the special pi_repository

# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.monkey-project.com/primates_pi primates_pi main