Questions tagged [lighttpd]
Lighttpd ("lighty") is a fast open source web server, optimised for speed critical environments
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Can Apache2.4 match a url to a directory with name-based virtual hosting? [duplicate]
How can Apache2.4 be configured to automaticaly match a url to an identical directory using name-based virtual hosting? By automatic, I mean not having to edit apache2.conf and restart.
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How to configure lighttpd to serve an Angular 8 application?
I would like to run an Angular 8 app on lighttpd webserver installed on a Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately the app stops loading immediately leaving a blank browser screen. No error in browser console, no ...
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Lighttpd/Nginx Non-Functional
I'm using the Blackboard AMI from AWS and can't get the lighttpd to function on it. I continually get 502s.
I've run service lighttpd status which gave me back:
● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
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Lighttpd - can be run, but not showing up as service on Ubuntu
I've got a little Atom box that I'm running Xubuntu (18.04.3 LTS Ubuntu with Xfce) on and I've got lighttpd up and going by adjusting the port number in the conf file (to avoid a collision with Apache ...
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Merge different web services to one port
I have different web services running on different ports (on one Linux host):
https://host.com:101/app1/ (Flask)
https://host.com:102/app2/ (Ruby)
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How can I access them through a common port (80)...
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lighttpd: Disable on single site
I have a website that was configured with lighttpd. But now this site needs to be replaced, so I put all the old contents on a folder named legacy, and the new one made in Laravel on a folder called ...
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Cannot redirect/proxy from Apache to lighttpd server
I have a home server that is accessible from outside with a static IP and port http://<homeip>:10001. This is a Lighttpd server.
I also own a website https://example.com with Apache, I've ...
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PHP curl_exec failing with HTTPS
I have a wordpress site that its failing. I tracked the issue and I found that is due to curl_exec() failing with HTTPS sites.
I'm running php 5.6 in a Alpine Linux v3.8 container with lighttpd.
The ...
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Make `lighttpd` 1.4 reverse proxy serve an application from different path
I am trying to configure an application (Python Flask) to run behind a lighttpd reverse proxy. I am using lighttpd v1.4.53.
The part that fails has its root cause in the fact that the application is ...
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What’s the meaning of “(?i)” in Lighttpd rewrite rule?
This article : https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/lighttpd-mod_rewrite-redirect-hotlink-image.html mentions :
$HTTP["referer"] =~ ".*BADDOMAIN\.com.*|.*IMAGESUCKERDOMAIN\.com.*|.*blogspot\.com.*" {
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Trying to deploy my flask web app using lighttpd
I'm trying to deploy my flask web app using lighttpd. I created this hello.fcgi file
#!/usr/bin/python
from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
from hello import app
if __name__ == '__main__':
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lighttpd 1.4: Include scheme in www-to-no-www redirect config, with path exclusion
I'm using lighttpd 1.4.45 on a Debian-based system and have the 10-no-www.conf (from /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-no-www.conf in the lighttpd package) in use to redirect "www.<something>" to "...
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Lighttpd: Expose files in a directory only through chosen URL pattern
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I have a web page X, which I would like to serve through only through URLs matching /X/${UUID}, where UUID is a random UUID which I give to a person. I have come up with a solution which ...
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Lighttpd Reverse Proxy with SSL/HTTPS
I am trying configure Lighttpd to redirect/handle port-specific requests to a subdomain.
I can access my plex server via https://www.example.com:32400/
I would like that to be redirected to https://...
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Lighttpd Stops Responding, Has to Be Restarted
Lighttpd web server, lighttpd was shutting down with the error:
[note] sockets disabled, out-of-fds
I updated to the newest build of lighttpd, updated fd limits, and now lighttpd does not shut ...
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linux/lighttpd: setting umask for webdav?
I'm running lighttpd on my linux server. I have set up webdav, and I want to set the umask to a specific value only for the webdav site, and not for any other sites running under my lighttpd server. ...
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Lighttpd reverse proxy HTTPS to another server on HTTP
I've a Lighttpd server running on HTTPS, and I want to have one subdirectory on the server act as a reverse proxy for a separate server that runs on HTTP. I've tried following guides on doing both ...
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How to use modsecurity with lighttpd
I'm not an expert and I'm looking to use modsecurity with lighttpd
Can someone explain me how to compile or install modsecurity for lighttpd because I can't find any documentation online
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Proxy URL to different port via Lighttpd
I cannot seem to proxy a URL to another port on same hostname. I have user interface (Angular 5) running on somehost:8080 and the rest of the web application on somehost.com (port 80). I'd like to ...
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lighttpd proxy all except .well-known for letsencrypt
I want to configure lighttpd to accept requests from letsencrypt service for cert renewal, but I have a problems with the configuration because it's using as proxy server, so my /.well-known is not ...
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Lighttpd running FastCGI script hangs and give 500 internal error
I'm attempting to use lighttpd and fastcgi to run a small flask application. When I try to start lighttpd, it starts the server just fine, but when I try to connect in the browser, it hangs without ...
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Suexec: invalid command error
I'm trying to set lighttpd with suexec, but something goes wrong on testing: when I try to launch something via suexec, it gives me in log:
[2017-10-08 00:23:24]: invalid command (/srv/http/main/...
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Lighttpd stop responding to php calls
I am running 2 servers with Lighttpd 1.4.45 with fastcgi and php 5.6 on gentoo linux.
We have a problem in both servers that about twice a day the Lighttpd stop responding to php calls, only restart ...
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Redirect http and ssl requests on 50001, 50002 to localhost ports lighttpd
I have a http server running on localhost:50001 and a ssl enabled server on localhost:50002, my root domain is say example.com lighttpd serves a directory when example.com is requested. I need to ...
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Extracting TLS session keys from lighttpd
Is it possible to extract the TLS session keys from Lighttpd so we are able to decrypt traffic captured by tcpdump?
Alternatively, we could disable PFS but we prefer not to do that.
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Migrate Apache Authorization Header rule to Lighttpd
My web server is running PHP applications with lighttpd and PHP-FPM for years.
Now, after a 3rd-Party software upgrade, I must include some rules in order to activate a REST API.
<IfModule ...
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How to use php-fpm in tcp mode on an external machine?
I'm using php-fpm over TCP, because Is my intention load balance it.
Should I have PHP files on every server?
Or can I store it at the web server (Lighttpd)?
I'm receiving 404 Error when trying to ...
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SNI for Multiple Hosts on Lighttpd
Inherited lighttpd server, I'm somewhat clueless on it. Trying to use SNI to install a 3rd SSL cert without another IP. Currently the SSL config in lighttpd.conf looks like so:
$SERVER["socket"] == ":...
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How to disable abbreviated SSL handshake to perform a full handshake every call on lighttpd?
I understand the ssl handshake flow, but I'm facing a logic problem.
When a user selects a certificate I need to validate it against application to know that its reliable and match with any system ...
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Lighttpd proxy tomcat path
My tomcat serves 2 sites
ROOT -> Main-site
/mobile -> dedicated mobile website
I've configured lighttpd to serve as a proxy
$HTTP["host"] =~ "www.my-site.at" {
proxy.server = ( "" =&...
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Is possible to use Lighttpd $HTTP[“url”] conditional to enable ssl.verifyclient.* option dynamically?
I should enable ssl.verifyclient.* option for a single endpoint of the website, to proceed with certificate login or validation.
But it is not working.
The configuration:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(.*\.|)...
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How do I set up letsencrypt with multiple domains on a lighttpd server with ubuntu 16.04?
I'm trying to set up letsencrypt on lighttpd from scratch. I currently run lighttpd on 16.10 xenial and want to move over existing sites to https from http. I know there's an automatic setup process ...
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Error “SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate” on lighttpd
I'm using a valid certificate but I'm not able to get client certificate. The lighttpd service fails with error:
(connections-glue.c.200) SSL: 1 error:140890C7:SSL routines:...
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Arch Linux - Pass MAC address of connected client to web application via web server [closed]
I currently have a raspberry pi running Arch Linux acting as a wifi access point. There is a web server running on the pi with a LAN web app (PHP).
I want my web app to know the MAC address of a user ...
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how to use rewrite files with lighttpd
I have just installed a new personal Gentoo server (on a VPS at vpsfree.cz by the way) and wanted to try something more lightweight than Apache that I used on my previous Debian based server.
I used ...
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lighttpd spontaneously dies
I've been using lighttpd pretty successfully on a VPS for several years, but I've hit a snag since upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04.1 on September 30th. (My lighttpd is now 1.4.35.) Twice, upon ...
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Serve application with non standard index file from different document-root
I am trying to configure lighttpd to serve an application (let's call it "foo") that is using a non-standard index page (e.g. "bar.html") as it's start page from a different document-root than the ...
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How to disable lighttpd access log?
I'm using lighttpd and access.log is increasing too fast.
Is there a good way to disable access log?
At the lighttpd.conf seems that is possible to disable "mod_accesslog" in the "server.modules", ...
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Lighttpd rewrite with dot (.) in URL
I've an installation of lighttpd under Debian running a small API. The current rewrite rules are:
url.rewrite = (
"^/(.*)\.(.+)$" => "$0",
"^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1"
)
The ideia is ...
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Gradual throttling total bandwidth
I have a server with a 30TB traffic allowance hosting (mostly) history images and would like to throttle one particular directory (the download image sizes) when necessary to avoid going over the ...
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HTTP Strict Transport Security global cert refresh
So, I probably screwed up when I set up HSTS and didn't refresh my certificate in time. Browsers now have a cache of my old certificate and don't seem to be contacting my server to request a fresh ...
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Lighttpd doesn't start after purging Apache
I tried to migrate from Apache to Lighttpd on kubuntu 16.04. I used apt-get remove --purge apache2 then apt-get install lighttpd
After running systemctl start lighttpd I got the error message
Job ...
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lighttpd can't access same files and apache can't
I having a issue with lighttpd, It can't access any of my files in ../media/* but apache can. It's the very same files it have been running for a very long time, until for 4 -> 6 hours ago, where it ...
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Lighttpd Skip auth for ip
I have setup a login for a domain with lighttpd 1.4.31, no problem.
Now, I would like to skip this login for a single IP address.
I have tried a few different configs I found in the documentation ...
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Lighttpd: specify two http hosts with same document root?
What is the best or proper way to specify two http hosts with the same document root on Lighttpd? For example, to serve a domain at example.org and www.example.org.
Given the following in the ...
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https not recognized by PHP when lighttpd url.rewrite used
I'm deploying a PHP website using lighttpd. To get nice URLs working, I've put this into the configuration file:
url.rewrite = (
"^/(?!(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content))/(.*)" => "/index.php?$...
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lighttpd authentication before redirection from https to http
I would like to redirect from https to http after authentication so credentials go through a secure channel but everything else is transmitted in plain.
Here it is the relevant part of the conf file:
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Reverse Proxy with https redirect in Lighttpd
I've got a django application here that uses a lighttpd reverse proxy. We recently moved it behind an elastic load balancer on EC2 and I'm having trouble working out the correct config to do what I ...
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CentOS 7 lighttpd startup failed
I'm running CentOS 7 and when I start lighttpd, it showed status [OK], but when I check the status, it does not actually run. There isn't much information on the startup log, but here is it:
[root@...
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Search lighttpd access log
The access-log on my lighttpd server is kind of huge, apx 5GB.
Now I need to extract all data from a given date, 12th of February, from the log file and if possible save to new file. Is it possible ...
