Category: lighttpd

lighttpd

Posted on April 2, 2018 (December 28, 2020) by ServerOk

lighttpd is a lightweight web server used mainly to serve static files. Youtube used lighttpd before it was purchased by Google. I was using lighttpd with some file hosting/image hosting sites with mod_secdownload that allows the link to expire after predefined time. These days i use Nginx as it is more popular. Only see lighttpd […]

lighttpd mod alias

Posted on December 19, 2013 (December 19, 2020) by ServerOk

mod_alias lighttpd module allow you to map urls to file system. For example, you need /mrtg show /var/www/mrtg You need to first enable mod_alias in lighttpd.conf

vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

1	vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Find

server.modules              = (
#                               "mod_rewrite",
#                               "mod_redirect",
#                               "mod_alias",

server.modules = (

# "mod_rewrite",

# "mod_redirect",

# "mod_alias",

and remove the comment # on “mod_alias” line. It should look like

server.modules              = (
#                               "mod_rewrite",
#                               "mod_redirect",
                                "mod_alias",

server.modules = (

# "mod_rewrite",

# "mod_redirect",

"mod_alias",

To add alias, add following in lighttpd.conf

alias.url = ( "/mrtg/" => "/var/www/mrtg/" )

1	alias.url = ( "/mrtg/" => "/var/www/mrtg/" )

If you need to add […]

bind lighttpd to one ip address

Posted on March 27, 2009 (December 19, 2020) by ServerOk

I want to bind lighttpd on IP address 76.76.18.20, so i can use other IP’s for Apache, Apache have “Listen” option to bind apache to specific IP address.

vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

1	vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Find

#server.bind                = "127.0.0.1"

1	#server.bind = "127.0.0.1"

Replace with

server.bind                = "76.76.18.20"

1	server.bind = "76.76.18.20"

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Auto restart lighttpd on crash

Posted on February 10, 2009 (May 10, 2021) by ServerOk

To restart lighttpd if it went down or crashed, create a file check_lighttpd.sh

mkdir /usr/serverok
vi /usr/serverok/check_lighttpd.sh

1 2	mkdir /usr/serverok vi /usr/serverok/check_lighttpd.sh

With the following content

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/wget --tries=1 --timeout=30 -O /dev/null http://localhost:80/up.html

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
(
killall -9 lighttpd;
killall -9 gam_server;
killall -9 php-cgi;
/etc/init.d/lighttpd stop;
mv /var/log/lighttpd/access.log /var/log/lighttpd/access.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H).log
mv /var/log/lighttpd/error.log /var/log/lighttpd/error.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H).log
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start;
echo 'restarting lighttpd' `ps aux` | mail -s "`hostname` restarting lighttpd `who | awk '{print $6}'`" you@yourdomain.extn
datetime=`date "+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S"`
echo $datetime "failure">>/var/log/lighttpd/check.log
)
fi

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/wget --tries=1 --timeout=30 -O /dev/null http://localhost:80/up.html

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

(

killall -9 lighttpd;

killall -9 gam_server;

killall -9 php-cgi;

/etc/init.d/lighttpd stop;

mv /var/log/lighttpd/access.log /var/log/lighttpd/access.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H).log

mv /var/log/lighttpd/error.log /var/log/lighttpd/error.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H).log

/etc/init.d/lighttpd start;

echo 'restarting lighttpd' `ps aux` | mail -s "`hostname` restarting lighttpd `who | awk '{print $6}'`" you@yourdomain.extn

datetime=`date "+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S"`

echo $datetime "failure">>/var/log/lighttpd/check.log

)

Make it executable

chmod 755 /usr/serverok/check_lighttpd.sh

1	chmod 755 /usr/serverok/check_lighttpd.sh

Create a file up.html on web root of your web site

echo "up" > /path/to/docroot/up.html

1	echo "up" > /path/to/docroot/up.html

Now set a cronjob to run every 5 minutes

crontab -e

1	crontab -e

Add following cronjob

*/5 * * * *  /usr/serverok/check_lighttpd.sh  1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

1	/5 * * * /usr/serverok/check_lighttpd.sh 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

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