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 a predefined time. https://www.lighttpd.net lighttpd mod alias lighttpd too many open files bind lighttpd to … Read more
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 Find server.modules = ( # “mod_rewrite”, # “mod_redirect”, # “mod_alias”, and remove the comment # on “mod_alias” line. It should look like server.modules = ( # “mod_rewrite”, … Read more
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 Find #server.bind = “127.0.0.1” Replace with server.bind = “76.76.18.20” See lighttpd
To restart lighttpd if it went down or crashed, create a file check_lighttpd.sh 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 … Read more