Questions tagged [lighttpd]
Lighttpd ("lighty") is a fast open source web server, optimised for speed critical environments
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Lighttpd rewrite subdomains to subfolders
I have a server (itself on a subdomain) with wildcard DNS pointing to it. The server is running Lighttpd and PHP.
I need requests to http://any-subdomain.server.example.com to rewrite to http://...
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What are the advantages of using dedicated server software over framework built-in servers?
Being a beginner in the web world, I've always used Apache to develop applications in PHP. Getting tired of it, I learned Node.js, Rails and Django -- just to get a taste of each of the most used web ...
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Retrieve external IP in PHP behind Haproxy
I am using Haproxy to enable running a websocket server and Lighttpd web server on the same machine.
I want to retrieve the machines external IP address from the web application running on the ...
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Upgrade Lighttpd 1.4.28 to 1.4.35 on Ubuntu 12.04
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and installed Lighttpd using:
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
this installed version 1.4.28.
I downloaded the source files for 1.4.35 (latest) from the Lighttpd site and ...
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CGI scripts are not working on lighttpd with SSL
CGI scripts worked perfectly, while I was using HTTP. Then I set redirecting for all traffic through https and now CGI doesn't work at all (404 - not found). I use lighttpd server.
Here is the part ...
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Lighttpd rewrite rule for Flight PHP microframework
I'm using the Flight PHP microframework, and it includes its' own router, and needs the server to rewrite requests to the index.php file.
It features rewrite-rules for both Apache and Nginx but ...
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How can I set up a web server for reverse proxy having websockets and socket.io working normally?
I have a VPS currently hosting node.js web apps and one site. However I'm currently using custom ports for the apps.
I'd like to simply give each its custom domain and so for more sites, that would ...
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Lighttpd fastcgi remote instance operation
This article suggests that it is relatively easy to scale an application by getting lighttpd to spawn php-fastcgi instances on multiple machines. What I do not understand is this - how does a PHP ...
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Can Apache, nginx and lighttpd coexist in a Ubuntu system?
Just for learning and testing, I've installed these three different web servers, I've also installed mysql and php5.
I changed the DocumentRoot for each to /var/www/apache, /var/www/nginx and /var/...
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Redirect with lighttpd and fastcgi on Django App
I have setup my lighttpd in a fashion which redirects all subdomains to my primary domain in following fashion * .domain.com -> domain.com. Unfortunately when i type in a subdomain such as www.domain....
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Redirect all subdomains to main domain with lighttpd and regex
Is it possible to redirect all *.domain.com to my domain.com?
I have been messing around with the Regex but without any luck:
$HTTP["host"] =~ ".*\.domain\.com" {
url.redirect = ("^/(.*)"...
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Lighttpd wrong config file syntax
Been trying for hours but just can't seem to get the correct syntax in my lighttpd configuration. As a last resort I am now asking the hive mind of server fault :P
I am trying to get trac hosted on ...
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lighttpd server not serving images, js or css files
I am given a try to lighttpd.
I configured a server with the instructions I found here.
Below my configuration file:
server.document-root = "<my_site_directory>"
server.port = 4000
server....
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SELinux policy issue
As qemu & KVM are working fine with SELinux out of the box I'd like to enable SELinux to improve guest isolation on my CentOS 6 server. The problem is that I'm using a 3rd parity virtualization ...
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lighttpd behind pound gets "connection timed out" error when using browser other than Chrome
Please help me diagnose a problem.
I had a working website (WordPress) for the last 6 months working just fine. No updates or new installations have been made in the server.
Today users complain ...
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convert lighttpd to nginx rewrite rules
I'm trying hard to make my code work on nginx. This configuration works with lighttpd but I want migrate it to nginx.
Rewrite rules on lighttd :
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/(ui)/(.*)$" => "/gi.php/$...
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Rewrite rules for Anchor CMS on Lighttpd
I installed Anchor CMS on my server running Lighttpd, and I am trying to setup pretty url's. I have anchor installed in a sub-directory "/blog".
The htaccess file that works with anchor cms in ...
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Use fasterize.com : redirect to "http://www" except for one page in https (with lighttp)
I use the awesome front end optimizer fasterize.com , which requires
www subdomain. Also I have a payment page that I would use HTTPS without using fasterize, so on another subdomain.
I use lighttpd, ...
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Serving image content over https, must encryption strength match that of the main website?
Im looking at migrating my website to https throughout. I have a server responsible for the HTML/PHP, and 4 other servers which serve image content
Now clearly all the image servers need to be https ...
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How do I configure lighttpd to serve static documents and proxy requests to a cluster of Rails app servers?
I'm trying to configure lighttpd so that it serves static documents of my Ruby on Rails app, and also routes requests to my Ruby on Rails app servers.
This is the configuration I have so far:
$HTTP["...
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HAProxy: ACL to forward to different webservers based on directory
basically I have a raspberry pi with multiple webserver daemons on different ports, to be specific lighttpd, apache, and the ADAFruit WebIDE. Basically here are the ways i need it to work[how would ...
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Browser based SSH [closed]
I have a small debian server colocated which hosts a domain and a single flat file site via lighttpd. For a variety of reasons I'd like to be able to run ssh in browser (without a browser plugin) via ...
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lighttpd 403 forbidden jpeg image access
I am running a stock lighttpd installation with no configuration changes. Client sees a 403 forbidden error trying to access static images (even from an img tag on a static page). Nothing in the logs ...
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How to convert RewriteCond rules so they work in Lighttpd?
How can I convert this Apache rewrite rules so they work on Lighttpd? This is in fact a .htaccess file, and I need to put those in a lighttpd.conf file.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
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Lighttpd, Error with upload, [413 - Request Entity Too Large]
I posted thread on Ubuntu forums couple of months ago but I never got any responds from them... So today I replied there and posting a new thread here, since I have a feeling I wont get a reply there ...
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lighttpd How to allow executing fcgi programs on www folder?
This is the first time I install lighttpd and I'm having a hard time configuring fcgi to work on /var/www/site/
I keep getting 403 Forbidden and so far have only found guides specific to php or that ...
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HAproxy 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request
I'm new to this load balancing scenario and I'm being tasked to figure out how to make this load balancing works.
My environment:
Centos 6.4 64 Bit
Webserver: Lighttpd
All running in ESXI
virtual ...
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How to redirect URLs without break a FastCGI app?
(I consider this question a duplicate of Lighttpd redirect from
www.domain.com to domain.com, but that one didn't get enough
attention and it's too old).
I'm trying to deploy an app over lighttpd+...
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Balancing server bandwith
I am working on a file uploading website.
It will be run on dedicated server with 1GBPS connection.
I wanna offer visitors max download speed possible at the current moment.
So lets say server can ...
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Lighttpd, regex in conf, path including regex match
The background :
- Lighttpd 1.4.28
- Debian 6.0.7 i686
Several developers are using this web server, and each of them has his own virtual host named after "username.mysite.tld". These hosts are ...
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What do I set the 'socket' to in lighttpd/fcgi?
I want to configure lighttpd to run fastcgi but I'm not sure what I should set the 'socket' to. What is the socket? Surely it doesn't expect me to create a socket before the program is actually ...
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on debian, lighttpd apache2 using 80 port, lighttpd throws :address already use error [closed]
I bought the linode(linode.com) server the other day. I've been trying to run lighttpd and apache2 at the same port, using lighttpd for static files. As linode is only providing ONE ipv4 address, I ...
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Lighttpd user directories with individual user processes
I have enabled user directories (mod_userdir) for my lighttpd server but I don't really know how different user processes can be spawned when php files in these directories are ran.
The user's ...
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Lighttpd won't start when fastcgi.debug directive is used
I'm running lighttpd/1.4.28 (ssl) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Everything's working, and I'm trying to do some performance tuning. I'd like to enable debug mode for the fastcgi module, however when I add ...
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Unable To Activate User Directories In Lighttpd
I am using Debian 7 based host and configure PHP-FPM and lighttpd along with rutorrent on this host. I wants to use user directories instead of default /var/www path.
I already run following command ...
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lighttpd Regex for automatic forwarding of subdomains
I have been looking round and I have not found a good way to automatically set the document root for domains automatically.
For example:
In the DNS, *.mydomain.com points to mydomain.com
And in the ...
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After Enabling User Directories On Lighttpd I Got Failed After Restart Lighttpd Server
I am using Debian 7 64 as host, And i installed Lighttpd and PHP-FPM with mysql support, After fresh installation of lighttpd and PHP-FPM, I tried to enable user directories and i run following ...
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lighttpd access control affecting subdirectory trees sibling to a htpasswd file
Suppose I have a htdocs directory tree served by lighttpd
htdocs
htdocs/foo
htdocs/foo/spam
htdocs/foo/eggs
htdocs/foo/eggs/stirred
htdocs/foo/eggs/fried
htdocs/bar
htdocs/bar/bacon
Now I'd like to ...
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Remove port from the url [closed]
How can I change the url http://localhost:8080 to http://localhost in a lighttpd server..
I searched on Google, but no luck..
My current .conf file
server.document-root = "/mnt/sdcard/www"
dir-...
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lighttpd rate limits per directory
I'm creating a site with a large number of small tools. One is a tool which uses a Python cgi-script that interacts with the Natural Language Toolkit (nltk), which is disk and CPU intensive. I have ...
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Global and per user php.ini
On my server (lighttpd + php-cgi) I have several php-cgi processes, each running as the user of the site it's serving. I know I can set a php.ini for each process through the PHPRC enviroment variable....
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Lighttpd init script doesn't work on Debian Wheezy
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I have found why it did not work, I just had to add the directive
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
to the lighttpd.conf file.
I can't figure out why the lighttpd init ...
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flask, lighttpd with fastcgi can't get it to work
i'm tring to deploy a simple flask script to a lighttpd server with fastcgi.
this is the configuration file for lighttpd builded using the flask documentation http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/...
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moodle with 10 threads is slow on lighttpd
I runnnig Moodle on Lighttpd on Centos 6 with 1G RAM.
If I open 10 threads to moodle then moodle starting to be very slow.
How I can to speed the server? I need to serve lot of users.
I checked the ...
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lighttpd: SMP workers causing performance degrade
I am trying to increase the performance of my lighttpd system by using SMP workers for multiple cores.It turns out that instead of improving the performance it is degrading it. I dont seem to ...
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lighttpd mod_auth using LDAP
I've setup lighttpd to use an ldap backend like so:
auth.debug = 2
auth.backend = "htdigest"
auth.backend.ldap.hostname = "ldap.xxxxx.com"
auth.backend.ldap.base-dn = "ou=active,ou=employees,ou=...
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Use lighttpd to access a website over a proxy
this is going to be my very first question.
At our company we are using Squid as a proxy between our intranet and the internet. Now we have the need that a software package can't handle a proxy ...
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How does lighttpd/nginx determine filetype of a file? (which method?)
I want to configure my lighttpd to serve some static files, with compression capability. The files are plain text but they have .bin extension. I have these lines in my lighttpd configuration:
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epoll timeout configuration in lighttpd
Is there a configuration option to tune epoll timeout in lighttpd? I'm developing an embedded Linux (2.6) device, with lighttpd 1.4.30. And I'm observing the following issue: even when the system is ...
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How to forbid HTTP TRACE in lighttpd
In a recent PCIDSS scan at a client of mine, I got aware of Web Server HTTP Trace/Track Method Support Cross-Site Tracing Vulnerability (CVE-2004-2320, CVE-2007-3008). The proposed mitigation for ...
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