1. You can use other webservers but GS relies on apache's mod rewrite module. So if you want to take advantage of friendly urls, and directory protection you will have to rewrite module for lighttp, or don't use it at all.
2. you need simplexml, and curl module for php as stay in requirements
2. you need simplexml, and curl module for php as stay in requirements
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