Questions tagged [lighttpd]
Lighttpd ("lighty") is a fast open source web server, optimised for speed critical environments
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Lighthttp FastCGI unable to start due to permission denied on Linux Mint 20
I get that in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log after start attempt:
2021-04-04 14:47:21: (server.c.1488) server started (lighttpd/1.4.55)
2021-04-04 14:47:21: (gw_backend.c.1404) invalid "bin-path&...
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503 service unavailable with high loads when using php7.3-fpm and lighttpd 1.4.53 connected via UNIX sockets instead of TCP
I recently switched my php7.3-fpm configuration to use UNIX Sockets instead of listening at localhost:9000. This solved a lag problem (every now and then I had requests that took over a second for no ...
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accessing dedicate server.document-root in lighttpd returns 404
I have a default lighttpd installation with server.document-root = /var/www/html
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
server.modules = (
"mod_indexfile",
"mod_access",
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Lighttpd Client Certificate Authentication
I'm trying to enable client certificate authentication with lighttpd using my own internal windows CA's.
Disclaimer: I'm still very new to PKI :D
I have an offline root CA and a subordinate CA in my ...
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Serve ports through URL using lighttpd
Settings and goal
On a raspberry pi, I'm running a Lighttpd server (version: lighttpd/1.4.53 (ssl)). This server was initially installed by pi-hole, a DNS I'm starting to use to manage my network. I ...
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Cross platform reverse proxy with lighttpd
I have a website www.somewebsite.com domain hosted on lighttpd 1.4 server configured with server.port = 8080 that is on a device (A) with local IP 192.168.1.26 and I want to get to use a reverse proxy ...
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Lighttpd Port/Proxy Alias Redirect
I am trying to redirect an alias to an internal port.
[https]://www.site.com/place ---> [http]://localhost:10000
The configuration entry I currently have just changes the URL to [https]://www.site....
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Why won't lighttpd restart despite having correct permissions?
systemctl status lighttpd
● lighttpd.service - Lightning Fast Webserver With Light System Requirements
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
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Lighttpd 1.4.45 - HTTP to HTTPS redirects not replacing ${url.authority}${url.path}${qsa}
I tried to reconfigured my lighttpd to automatically relocate any HTTP requests to HTTPS requests. To do this, I found the following config snipped in the Lighttpd Redmine Wiki:
$HTTP["scheme&...
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Lighttpd proxy, and letsencrypt renewal
I need some help on this subject.
I have many domains in the same lighttpd config, and I will move to letsencrypt cert, so I'm simulating on a dummy server.
I have the following:
$HTTP["url"]...
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lighttp seems to be caching license file but don't know why
I'm using certbot to generate SSL certs for my website. I had an issue (because of cron script error and out of date python2, now resolved) where auto-update didn't work. I now have up to date license ...
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Lighttpd alpine container logging
The context is that I want to serve a static website inside a docker container so I can have some dedicated metrics, and I want the logs to use stdout/stderr.
To do that I thought of using Lighttpd ...
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Problems with WEBDAV on lighttpd
I've setup webdav on lighttpd but I'm getting a Cannot open collection - 404 not found when I try to access the share through cadaver. My lines for the vhost and share are as follows:
$HTTP["...
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Error in config trying to setup webdav in lighttpd
I'm trying to setup webdav on lighttpd but I'm getting a lighttpd.conf: parser failed somewhere near here at end-of-file. The webdav config is at the end of the file: here it is-
$HTTP["host&...
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LIGHTTPD PHPMYADMIN How can I configure PhpMyAdmin to only work on a specific Subdomain
So I have a small server with Lighttpd and I have installed PhpMyAdmin on it.
This is the default configuration. The Computer is accessible from the Internet on Port 80.
How can I make phpMyAdmin to ...
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PHP & lighttpd: Cannot access POST data
I am running PHP 7.2 fpm with lighttpd/1.4.53 on Raspbian. My goal is to upload image files through HTTP POST - But whatever I post to the script, the $_POST, $_FILES, $_REQUEST superglobals are just ...
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Unable to access webui with link local address
In lighttpd, I am unable to access WebUI with IPv6 link-local address, but with IPv6 global address it's accessible. Why is it so?
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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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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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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 :
$HTTP["referer"] =~ ".*BADDOMAIN\.com.*|.*IMAGESUCKERDOMAIN\.com.*|.*blogspot\.com.*" {
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Trying to deploy my flask web app using lighttpd
I'm trying to deploy my flask web app using lighttpd. I created this hello.fcgi file
#!/usr/bin/python
from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
from hello import app
if __name__ == '__main__':
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lighttpd 1.4: Include scheme in www-to-no-www redirect config, with path exclusion
I'm using lighttpd 1.4.45 on a Debian-based system and have the 10-no-www.conf (from /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-no-www.conf in the lighttpd package) in use to redirect "www.<something>" to "...
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Lighttpd: Expose files in a directory only through chosen URL pattern
Background
I have a web page X, which I would like to serve through only through URLs matching /X/${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 ...
