the lighttpd 1.4.29 -- installation

Step 0
System envrionment , Ubuntu 10.04
Downloading from http://www.lighttpd.net/download

Step 1

sudo su
tar -xf lighttpd-1.4.29.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.29

Step 2 installing dependencies

apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libattr1-dev libpcre3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libfam-dev libldap2-dev libfcgi-dev libgdbm-dev libmemcache-dev liblua5.1-0-dev pkg-config uuid-dev libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev libkrb5-dev

Step 3 installing

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lighttpd
make && make install

Step 4 configuration

mkdir /etc/lighttpd
cp doc/config/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd/
cp doc/config/modules.conf /etc/lighttpd/
cp -r doc/config/conf.d/ /etc/lighttpd/

Step 5 setting

vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Now, you will see this line below, maybe you need to change the user name, that is my user for running the lighttpd.

server.username  = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"

and, if your website root directory is here.

var.server_root = "/var/www"

So,

mkdir /var/www/htdocs
touch /var/www/htdocs/index.html
echo 'Hello lighttpd!' >> /var/www/htdocs/index.html

and open this line of commend,

server.bind = "localhost"

then set the port,

server.port = 8080

Finally, typing this command in terminal,

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

Now, opening your bowser with the address [url]http://localhost:8080 [/url]
you will see 'Hello lighttpd!', good luck to you!

In addition. you could add the command aliases to your ~/.bash_aliases

alias lighttpd='/usr/local/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd'
alias lll='/usr/local/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf'
alias www='cd /var/www/htdocs'