Questions tagged [lighttpd]

Question 1

I am able to run lighttpd on ubuntu 9.10. But when i tried to setup fastcgi with lighttpd by putting this in the ligttpd.conf file: #### fastcgi module fastcgi.server = ( "/fastcgi_scripts/" => ...

Question 2

I'm in the process of replacing Apache with Lighty and I'm having some trouble. The index of the page loads fine, but whenever I try to go into a subdirectory I will get a 403 forbidden error. It ...

Question 3

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 ...

Question 4

I have lighttpd/1.4.31 (ssl) on Debian 7.6 and I would for the standard error.log to include the IP address of the host which caused the error. Is it possible? The accesslog.format directive allows ...

Question 5

I've recently installed Lighttpd on Ubuntu 10.04. I used the standard concfig file without modification and placed my content in /var/www. I opened a browser typed in the URL www.myexample.co.uk and ...

Question 6

I have a lighttpd server version 1.4.46+ on Linux which serves file1.xml and file2.xml from htdocs directory as is. There are clients that request these files, each of those send a User-Agent header ...

Question 7

With this configuration $HTTP["host"] == "^(ch\.)?pool.ntp.org$" { accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/pool.ntp.org_access.log" $HTTP["url"] =~ &...

Question 8

The following config (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) seems to redirect to the default page $HTTP["host"] == "pool.ntp.org|ch.pool.ntp.org" { accesslog.filename = "/var/log/...

Question 9

I need a Lighttpd rewrite rule for a WordPress Multisite in a subdirectory for my local install. # Rewrite url.rewrite-final = ( "^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-json.*)" => "/index....

Question 10

I'm an absolute beginner at lighttpd and I'm at my wits end trying to figure out what's gone wrong with the default settings that I've customized atm debug.log-request-handling = "enable" ...

Question 11

0 Just recently I've started to see seemingly random crashes on a web server that has been stable for quite some time. I think PHP is crashing, but there are no crash logs so I'm only assuming that's ...

Question 12

I am beginner in lighttpd I am facing problem in cms script because of htaccess as htaccess dont work in lighttpd I had enabled mod_rewrite in lighttpd.conf file and due to this I am facing 404 error ...

Question 13

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 ...

Question 14

I have two CGI test scripts in lighttpd. When I open Bash http://host/cgi-bin/test.sh URL I get a valid response from the script. But when I open Python http://host/cgi-bin/test.py the file is ...

Question 15

It seems like redirect is not done. If I put URL https://test2/static_page in browser it works but if I put https://test1 don't redirect SERVER["socket"] == ":443" { $HTTP["...

Question 16

i was wondering if nginx is able to handle http and https requests on the same port. [*] This is what i'm trying to do. I'm running a web server (lighttpd) handling http requests, and a C program ...

Question 17

I've just set up a lighttpd server which I want to use to serve multiple applications on different domains. I've managed to make traffic to a specific domain to be redirected to an application running ...

Question 18

I am using lighttpd version 1.4.55 within an ARM environment. I created an HTML pages in which there is a button used to download some json data. This button trigger a submit form that calls a cgi ...

Question 19

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 ...

Question 20

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 ...

Question 21

what is the best http server to be used as webdav for getting and posting files (big files) to from server? is it apache or lighttpd ? I will use the system as online file storage (for backup) ...

Question 22

What is the maximum number of VirtualHosts a single lighttpd instance can handle? I'd like to confirm some numbers before deploying lighttpd for production. Here's a similar question for the old ...

Question 23

I am running lighttpd in a docker container on Ubuntu (as a service that must always be up in my traefik setup). My docker-compose.yml contains: lighttpd: image: sebp/lighttpd container_name:...

Question 24

I have trouble configuring Lighttpd to serve the various services hosted on my server. Lighttpd acts as a front, and I have several DNS records, each for a different subdomain, redirecting to the same ...

Question 25

I am a beginner with traefik, lighttpd, docker compose, and I am trying to get logging working for lighttpd under docker compose. My lighttpd.conf file contains: server.modules = ( "...

Question 26

After restarting a lighttpd server recently I haven't been able to get it up and running again. I am running a python built API service on it, and am relying on the web.py module to run the ...

Question 27

So, I've this situation: I have recently installed Lighttpd in ubuntu (In VM Ware), I am trying to bind the IP to the Lighttpd server and access that IP address (from a browser) in my other system (...

Question 28

When saving configuration settings in Magento I get "413 - request entity too large". We are running lighttpd. In php.ini memory_limit = -1 In lighttpd.conf server.max-request-size = 1000000 I have ...

Question 29

I'm running lighttpd-1.4.19 on a debian 5 box and try to run web2py with fastcgi. The problem with that is, that lighttpd does not create the socket file /tmp/fcgi.sock. If I'm creating the file by ...

Question 30

I have tried to use the example from this wiki page - $HTTP["scheme"] == "http" { # capture vhost name with regex conditiona -> %0 in redirect pattern # must be the most inner block to ...

Question 31

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=...

Question 32

I have to proxy a site which is hosted on an external webspace through my lighty on example.org. My config so far: $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/webmail" { proxy.server = ("/webmail/" => ( # ...

Question 33

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&...

Question 34

I've set a simple virtual hosting using Lighttpd simple_vhost module and want to do a permanent 301 redirect from www to non-www. Here are most significant parts of my configuration file: server....

Question 35

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://...

Question 36

lighttpd 1.4.31-4+deb7u3 automatically adds ;charset=UTF-8 to the content-type of .html and .php files. How can I remove that? Setting the content type in PHP itself does not help; lighttpd still ...

Question 37

I am trying to configure FastCgi with ligttpd server. I was able to run vanilla lighttpd like this: ./lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf And then I compile/install the source of fastcgi, and I add the ...

Question 38

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 ...

Question 39

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 = ( "" =&...

Question 40

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

Question 41

I am trying lighttpd as a reverse proxy (v1.4.53) lighttpd.conf: $HTTP["url"] =~ "(^/example/)" { proxy.header = ("map-urlpath" => ( "/example/" => &...

Question 42

i'm trying to use lighttpd as a simple "alive" server for some nodes i have running. However, the script I'm running throws 500 errors non-deterministically, and i can't find them anywhere. ...

Question 43

I have HTTPS working for a local instance of Lighttpd. But I'm wanting to redirect: http://192.168.1.254 -> https://192.168.1.254:123 https://192.168.1.254 -> https://192.168.1.254:123 My ...

Question 44

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

Question 45

I have an interesting condition resolution problem to resolve and have not had luck with on-line searching and looking through documentation for lighttpd yet. Many of those searches led to similar ...

Question 46

BusyBox httpd executes the ./cgi-bin/index.cgi if it exists. This is similar to index.php but with the /cgi-bin/ folder. So for example I have the structure: /api/ cgi-bin/index.cgi /blog/ cgi-bin/...

Question 47

I'm installing Nextcloud on a FreeBSD system and I'm using lighttpd behind a nginx reverse proxy with terminal SSL. lighttpd is able to serve static html files and can serve index.php, but without any ...

Question 48

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 to ...

Question 49

Can I set multiple SSL certificates for virtual hosts using Lighttpd web server? I have several webshops on my server (each webshop has its own domain) and I need to setup a SSL certificate for each ...

Question 50

I have a webserver with limited resources and therefore I decided to use lighttpd as my webserver software. However, I notice now that it does not recognizes apache .htaccess files. Most of the ...