Comments on: Installing and configuring lighttpd webserver – HOWTO

By: suresh

suresh — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:30:39 +0000

i am using lighttpd1.4.24 server in ubuntu.i have a python script as index.py in my server.document-root so that when i start my lightty server the script gets run..inside the script i need to redirect the server to a particular url(ex=[Link to http://www.gmail.com)..can anyone give me the entire python script..i have tried with some but nothing works for me but server running successfully without redirection..

By: Oragon

Oragon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:45:00 +0000

Hello all,
I configured Lighty with FastCGI and PHP successfully and am able to serve dynamic content as well. However, I will eventually run the server on a memory constrained device. Hence I would prefer using C instead of PHP. Assuming I am able to build a fastCGI-C application, how do I configure Lighty to work with this setup ? I have done all the preliminary online research and have RTFM, but things still are not clear.
If anyone can shed some light, it would be awesome of them !!!
Cheers
O

By: Ela

Ela — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:52:29 +0000

Am using httpd server and am having the error log file problem, file will be created and its size is increasing without end. i already posted three posts. sorry to posted this much times because i need the solution. Please can you find out whats happening exactly.

By: txaume

txaume — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:59:16 +0000

Good tutorial, tanks!
But now, i guess if there’s any way to fix user and only ask for password when youauthenticate any user that tries to load a web hosted in my lighttpd server. I mean, when the usual login popup appears, it has to be something like that:
user:admin
password:
any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

By: V.Balaviswanathan

V.Balaviswanathan — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:11:17 +0000

Thanks a lot for your tutorials

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:50:22 +0000

@ dendy,

Find out if session.save_path (php.ini) exists and owned by lighttpd.

By: dendy b sulistyo

dendy b sulistyo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:21:49 +0000

when i use apache+php+mysql+wordpress 2.5, the insert image is working.
after following your tutorial, using lighttpd+php+mysql+wordpress 2.5 the insert image is not working. any experience about that ?
is this permition problem ? or ownership ?
thanks

By: Aaron Fay

Aaron Fay — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:36:24 +0000

Thank you so much, worked like a charm!

By: Hoteles Mar del Plata

Hoteles Mar del Plata — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:46:16 +0000

Good Word Server Web Daemon!!!!

Exceln Howto!!!

By: harish

harish — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:48:30 +0000

Hi,
this is really nice tutorial and seriously help me a lot but anyone can tell how can i remove flowplayer logo from my fullscreen mode ????

By: vivek

vivek — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:22:47 +0000

Yes you can write program in c/c++ and run as cgi-bin

By: Madhavi

Madhavi — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:42:14 +0000

Hi,

Can we write cgi-bin programs in C and run on lighttpd??

By: kunal

kunal — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:52:13 +0000

This tutorial is very helpful for me.

Thanks a lot !!!!!!!!!

By: Premkumar

Premkumar — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:44:45 +0000

Hi,

This tutorial is very helpful for my team. Thanks a lot…..

By: TECK

TECK — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:31:04 +0000

Hi nixcraft,

I was wondering if you could look the RPM I built on CentOS5 and tell mw what I did wrong:
fbytes.com/lighttpd-1.4.15-1.src.rpm

For some reason, the memcache option is disabled.
If I use the 1.4.13 archive everything is ok, so I believe is lighty bug.

Thanks for your help.

By: LavaLamp

LavaLamp — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:48:16 +0000

Hi!

This is an excellent collection. I would like to see more tutorials and configuration howtos – Rub on Rails and Python lighttpd configuration.

Thanks for all wonderful tutorials.

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:58:29 +0000

You can skip following
–build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu \
–target=i386-redhat-linux \

But rest is required to make sure /etc/init.d/lighttpd and other scripts find them.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:51:37 +0000

About ./configure:
I really doubt you would need all those options, configure can figure them out itself, for example –host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu or all those directories.

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:23:02 +0000

Add mod_cgi to server.modules i.e following command:
server.modules += ( “mod_cgi” )

Add alias url:
alias.url += ( “/cgi-bin/” => “/var/www/cgi-bin/” )

Add following url:
$HTTP["url"] =~ “/cgi-bin/” {
cgi.assign = ( “.pl” => “/usr/bin/perl” )
}

I will cover detailed article later on

By: Srinivasan R

Srinivasan R — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:24:15 +0000

I would really like to know how to setup cgi-bin and to execute cgi applications in lighttpd.