26 articles tagged "lighttpd"

Lighttpd: Enable IPv6 Support

Lighttpd supports both IPv6 and IPv4 protocol out of box. You need to compile lighttpd with IPv6 support. This small how to explains how to enable both IPv6 and IPv4 support under GNU/Linux / UNIX and FreeBSD operating systems.
Lighttpd Drupal CMS Clean URL ( SEO ) Rules Set Configuration

Drupal is modular framework and content management system (CMS) and works under Lighttpd too. By default, Drupal passes path arguments to itself via its internally generated URLs. This small howto explains setting up clean url using Lighttpd web sever.
Debian Linux Security Update: Lighttpd DoS and Gaim Package Remote Security Issues
Debian Linux project released today bug fixes for lighttpd and gaim package that allows remote attacks and DoS attacks.
Reddit Web 2.0 Social News Website Releases Source Code
On June 18, 2008, Reddit became an open source project. All of the code and libraries written for Reddit became freely available.
Lighttpd mod_rewrite Hotlink Protection To Display Image Message
Describes how to stop image or any media hotlinking under Lighttpd and redirect to another image to save bandwidth.
Lighttpd Install and Configure AwStats Software Log Analyzer
AWStats is a free powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line. This document describes awstats configuration.
mod_compress: Lighttpd Gzip Compression To Improve Download and Browsing Speed
Gzip compression reduces response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. This document describes gzipping http traffic which can reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today’s Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support compression.
Lighttpd Control a Directory Listing With mod_dirlisting
Lighttpd web server will generate a directory listing if a directory is requested and no index-file was found in that directory. mod_dirlisting is one of the modules that is loaded by default and doesn’t have to be specified on server.modules to work.
Task: Enable Directory Listings Globally
Open lighttpd configuration file:
# vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Append / modify
server.dir-listing = “enable”
OR
dir-listing.activate [...]
Lighttpd / Apache : Run Xcache in Chrooted Jail
Recently I wrote about installing and running Xcache under Red hat enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux. By default Xcache use /dev/zero for caching. All you have to do is create /dev/zero in chrooted jail. Type the following command (assuming that your jail is located at /lighttpd.jail directory):
# mkdir -p /lighttpd.jail/dev
# mknod -m 666 /lighttpd.jail/dev/zero c [...]
CentOS / Redhat Enterprise Linux Setup Lighttpd in Chroot Jail

Many people asked me to write about setting up Lighttpd under CentOS or RHEL 5 Linux using chroot() call. The instructions are almost same but you need to make little modification as compare to Debian / Ubuntu Linux instructions.