Questions tagged [lighttpd]

Lighttpd ("lighty") is a fast open source web server, optimised for speed critical environments

Lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is an open source web server optimised for speed critical environments, which is standards compliant. It attempts to be lower memory footprint, and more CPU efficient than other web servers, and is often simpler to configure. Initially it was targetted at static content, but now it is widely used for both static content and hosting CGI, PHP, Ruby, Python etc code.

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PHP not debugging/showing error messages

I've just installed lighttpd, and I'm not seeing any error messages on pages when I know errors must have occurred. All I get is a blank page. However, I do get the errors in the error log file - but I really want to see them while I develop instead…
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Redirect domains with lighttpd?

I'm working on getting a Wordpress MU install running on my VPS. I enabled the 'simple-vhost' mod and can access the site fine. The problem is I can only get to it from domain.com. If I try www.domain.com I get shown the lighthttpd page? I'd like to…
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When should I go for Varnish / Nginx or Lighttd?

I am fairly new to using any of these servers, so it will really help in knowing what specific features are most optimized of any of these three webservers. And in what scenarios should I choose one over the other?
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lighttpd not reliable

I have a lighttpd running which serves a django-based webservice. It was running well for some months, but from today on, it returns a 410 sometimes, and sometimes fails silently. To test, I make a curl-call, which most time runs fine; it returns…
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Prevent abuse of public HTTP directory meant for images

The situation: Each user has their own public HTTP directory, meant for images only. This could easily be abused by users using it to serve large files, wasting bandwidth. The question: Is there any fairly simple way to prevent this abuse? Either by…
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Can SSH be tunneled over HTTPS using thttpd?

I need to tunnel my SSH server through an HTTPS port using thttpd (I can change to lighttpd if necessary, but I'm trying to avoid installing Apache since it's an underpowered box). I haven't been able to find anything that confirms or denies this…
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timezone setting per virtual host

I am trying to test functionality related to timezone handling/conversion during synchronization between two of my test servers (currently they are running on same mashine). Is it possible to set up hosts so one will be running, say, by London time,…
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How to manage static content with dynamic

I have a lot of static pages, which include html files + js (SCORM packages). I have dynamic pages, also with JS which talks to the static pages JS. Static pages are being opened in an iframe, and we get them as-is from a third party (SCORM…
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lighttpd subdomain

Is it possible to configure lighttpd to get this: subdomain1.127.0.0.1 subdomani2.127.0.0.1 . . . Or something like this: domainname.com subdomain.domainame.com if the domainname is not yet registred, ie. i want it to run on my machine but with all…
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Tomcat & lighttpd/apache on same CentOS server

I'm wondering whether it would be possible to setup Tomcat 6 (for hosting Confluence) and either lighttpd or Apache (for PHP things) on the same machine. Ideally I want to have the root be PHP and /confluence to be tomcat. This is to be run from a…
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Lighttpd WARNING: unknown config-key: proxy.forwarded (ignored)

I encountered an error that proxy.forwarded is an unknown key I already enabled mod_proxy on my configuration. Here is my config server.modules = ( "mod_access", "mod_accesslog", "mod_alias", "mod_compress", "mod_redirect", …
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port lightptpd web server in android device

I have cloned source code from this link (https://github.com/nredko/lighttpd-arm) and launched this source code into android studio. NDK setup done. Compiled the source code. I could not able to understand this code is compiled successfully or not.…
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opensuse php fpm lighttpd 403 is it a permissions-issue

So far I have configured php-fpm configured and is up and running listening to port 9000 lighttpd is running and serves static files the problem that I have seems to be a permissions issue, so i chmod 777 -R /srv when I try to access index.php…
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Configure Website Names on LLighttpd Alpine Linux

It has been a long time since I have done any hosting on Linux, and it that was on CentOS and Apache. I am working on creating some sites on an Alpine server running Lighttpd. Reviewing the config file for Adminer, I could add my sites as a…
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Lighttpd mod_fastcgi respond only if conf file is using root url pattern

I have running lighttpd 1.4.59 on Lubuntu 21.10. My lighttpd.conf contains: fastcgi.server = ( "/" => (( "bin-path" => "/var/www/html/script.fcgi", "socket" => "127.0.0.1:80", "min-procs" => 1, …