[SOLVED] Lighttpd 1.4.28 won't start?!

DJRcomputing · 05-25-2011, 11:53 PM

Fresh install, followed the directions,

# ./configure --with-mysql --with-openssl --with-openssl-libs=/usr/lib (MySQL 5.5.12 & OpenSSL 1.0.0)

Everything seemed to go well enough. Stock lighttpd.conf. However, it won't start on boot. Not even manually via:

# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
or
# /etc/init.d/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (came across that while scouring Google).

No messages, no logs, nothing. ???

bathory · 05-26-2011, 03:23 AM

Hi,

Why are you trying to install lighttpd from source. If you're running debian as in your profile, you can run

Code:

apt-get install lighttpd

and you'll be fine

DJRcomputing · 05-26-2011, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Why are you trying to install lighttpd from source. If you're running debian as in your profile, you can run

Code:

apt-get install lighttpd

Umm...because I can?

Because Lenny (apt-get/synaptic) packages are usually quite dated (v1.4.19), though I see now that 1.4.28 is available on debian.org (which I'll often check).

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

and you should be fine

/fxt

...Because there are never any guarantees, and plenty of dependency hell & conflicting program installs/uninstalls. Because packages like to throw $h!t anywhere they want, like Apache2 & MySQL. (Lighttpd is the first source I've come across that did so as well, despite claims that default was /usr/local. *grumbles*) Likewise, because of limited/predetermined ./configure options. That being said, when discernibly suitable, like little progams & libs when compiling source squawks, I do install from packages...

Plus, why make life easier for myself? My goal is to learn.

Now, about why Lighttpd won't start...??

Otherwise, I'll continue setting up Apache 2.2.17 (installed DSO and all in one directory, because mod_perl recommends the latter.)

bathory · 05-26-2011, 05:58 AM

It's not starting, because the init script looks in the wrong locations for executable and config files.
The way you configured the lighttpd sources, it can be started by running:

Code:

/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

DJRcomputing · 05-26-2011, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

It's not starting, because the init script looks in the wrong locations for executable and config files.
The way you configured the lighttpd sources, it can be started by running:

Code:

/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

There we go, kinda, as things got quite messy thereafter. In order to even get it to run manually (and hopefully at boot) I had to:

Change /etc/init.d/lighttpd (Key = [line #] added, removed, changed)

Code:

35 LIGHTTPD_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd
53 . /etc/init.d/rc

Correct runlevel symlinks, because I realized that they WERE f'd afterall

Code:

# update-rc.d lighttpd remove
# update-rc.d lighttpd defaults

then the directories called for in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf didn't even exist, so I had to (keeping things consolidated)

Code:

# mkdir /var/lighttpd
# cd /var/lighttpd
# mkdir cache
# mkdir htdocs
# mkdir lib
# mkdir lib/sockets
# mkdir log
# mkdir vhosts

and finally edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (lighttpd.conf.old attached)

Code:

16  var.log_root    = "/var/lighttpd/log"   # vs creating default dirs
17  var.server_root = "/var/lighttpd"       # 
19  var.home_dir    = "/var/lighttpd/lib"   #
61  var.cache_dir   = "/var/lighttpd/cache" #
98  #server.bind = "localhost
104 #server.username  = "lighttpd"
105 #server.groupname = "lighttpd"

THEN it ran manually. But still doesn't at boot??!! [expletive] WTF? At least I'm having "fun", despite wanting to

# shoot --computer --brain

LOL!

PS - Sorry about my attitude earlier. Despite being a < 3 month Linux newbie, I'm quite proud of how much I've learned from square one since. LOTS of research, reading, and trial & error. *phew*

bathory · 05-26-2011, 12:40 PM

Quote:

There we go, kinda, as things got quite messy thereafter. In order to even get it to run manually (and hopefully at boot) I had to:

The easiest way to start it on boot, is to put the command in my previous post above in /etc/rc.local

Anyway, attached is the debian lighttpd startup file modified for your installation of lighttpd. Rename it to lighttpd, move it in /etc/init.d and make it executable

Regards

DJRcomputing · 05-26-2011, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

The easiest way to start it on boot, is to put the command in my previous post above in /etc/rc.local

Anyway, attached is the debian lighttpd startup file modified for your installation of lighttpd. Rename it to lighttpd, move it in /etc/init.d and make it executable

Let's see... "Quick & dirty", keeping my two minor mods, but stuck with

Code:

# Copyright (c) 1995-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.
# All rights reserved.
#
# Author: Kurt Garloff <feedback@suse.de>
#
# [long string of obscenities I want to email SOMEONE with a note:
# INCLUDE IN SOURCE TARBALL AS: lighttpd-1.4.28/doc/initscripts/rc.lighttpd.debian !!]

Or the more appropriate way. Hmm...I chose the latter.

*reboots*

O.M.F.G. The [expletives] POS finally started!! Thank you.

BTW:

Code:

17 DESC="HTTP Daemon - Static"                           # Something I want to learn. ;)
28 # mkdir -p /var/run/lighttpd > /dev/null 2> /dev/null #
29 # chown www-data:www-data /var/run/lighttpd           # Once is enough, no?
30 # chmod 0750 /var/run/lighttpd                        #