Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Lighttpd 1.4.19 compiling (Debian etch)

Following explains briefly how I managed to compile and run Lighttpd.

Remember that this doesn't include init.d scripts and such, and is not great idea for production servers.

Using Debian repository installation of Lighttpd is advised, seek the older article of installing Django, I have exaplained it there.

# Dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libpcre3
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

# Compilation:
cd /usr/src/
sudo wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.19
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

ls -la /usr/local/sbin/ # should contain lighttpd (and lighttpd-angel)
ls -la /usr/local/lib/ # should contain whole bunch of mod_... files

# now since this is bare ass installation,
# we need to make init scripts and such ourselves
sudo adduser lighttpd

sudo apt-get install authbind
cd /etc/authbind/byport/
sudo touch 80
sudo chown lighttpd:lighttpd 80
sudo chmod 775 80

sudo mkdir /etc/lighttpd
sudo chown lighttpd:lighttpd /etc/lighttpd/
sudo su lighttpd

mkdir /home/lighttpd/public_html
pico /home/lighttpd/public_html/index.html
<html><body>Congrats I'm running!</body><html>
# Exit the pico

pico /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
server.document-root = "/home/lighttpd/public_html"
server.port = 80
index-file.names = ( "index.html", "index.htm" )
include_shell "/etc/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
# Exit the pico

pico /etc/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open MIMETYPES, "/etc/mime.types" or exit;
print "mimetype.assign = (\n";
my %extensions;
while() {
chomp;
s/\#.*//;
next if /^\w*$/;
if(/^([a-z0-9\/+-.]+)\s+((?:[a-z0-9.+-]+[ ]?)+)$/) {
foreach(split / /, $2) {
# mime.types can have same extension for different
# mime types
next if $extensions{$_};
$extensions{$_} = 1;
print "\".$_\" => \"$1\",\n";
}
}
}
print ")\n";
# Exit the pico

/etc/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl

# Runs the lighttpd for test ^C to exit
authbind /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -D

exit # exits the "sudo su lighttpd"

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