lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a performance-optimized open-source web server

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Error in url alias in lighttpd

I have this configuration: alias.url = ( "/acruz/" => "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/acruz/", "/jvangemeren/" => "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/jvangemeren", "/doceno/" => ...
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ASP.NET MVC 3 on Mono + FastCGI + Lighttpd + Raspberry Pi [closed]

I'm trying to get ASP.NET MVC 3 running on Mono + FastCGI + Lighttpd + Raspberry Pi. But I keep getting: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted Here are the steps I ...
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Is there a way to make a http connection between Debian and Windows using a cross cable?

I have set up a lighttpd http server on my Raspberry Pi that uses Raspbian , a Debian distro and I am trying to view a web page on it through a cross cable link on a Windows 7 PC, but for some reason ...
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Lighttpd: Serve all files in directory as static

How can I prevent any code execution under a specific directory path using Lighttpd configuration? I do not want to use a whitelist/blacklist, but simply serve any file as a static file under that ...
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Run LightTPD as a Windows service for free

I'm looking for a good way to run LightTPD as a service on a Windows server, but all the solutions I can find are either general-purpose shareware or quite complicated to set up. Is there any good ...
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How can I change mydomain.com:8080 to mydomain.com/myservice?

Suppose I've a service set up that is running at mydomain.com:8080 How can I set it so I can access it on mydomain.com/myservice I am using lighttpd, but could easilly swich to nginx, or any other ...
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Lightttpd and max concurrent connections from 1 IP in Firefox/Ubuntu

Server Platform: Lighttpd/Angstrom OE linux. Client Browser: Ubuntu Firefox 3.6 and latest Chromium. Problem: I have a html page that sends off 6 async getJSON() (jQuery) requests at once to a php ...
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Redirect all urls expect one in lighttpd

How could I use mod_redirect module in lighttpd to redirect all urls to another url expect one ? Example www.dontredirect.com would not be redirected at all, but all other urls like www.foo.com or ...
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Setting up Lighttpd and FastCGI for my own web app?

I'm running Gentoo Linux, and I'm trying to get Lighttpd+PHP+FastCGI working. I discovered that Lighttpd doesn't have a FastCGI process manager. So, you're supposed to use spawn-fcgi. I have Lighttpd ...
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Lighttpd + PHP permission problems on Fedora

I'm trying to set up a Lighttpd webserver with PHP support. I have basically followed the instructions in this article, but after restarting the server (though I did not receive an error message and ...
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Pretty-print or re-indent lighttpd.conf?

Is there a tool which will pretty-print or re-indent lighttpd's lighttpd.conf? I'm using Vim, but VG= (Vim's reindent-the-whole-file command) goes haywire.
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How to allow other computers on the network to access my virtual web server?

I use Windows 7 as a host OS. I have Debian 6.0.4 installed on VirtualBox with lighttpd. I can easily access the web server from my machine by typing http://localhost in the browser address panel ...
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While trying to install lighttpd on debian squeeze I get: 'Some packages could not be installed.'

I am trying to install lighttpd on my (virtual) Debian 6.0.4 64 bit system but after trying to use this command : sudo apt-get install lighttpd I get this error : Reading package lists... Done ...
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Where is lighttpd.conf? Mybook world 2 whitelight webserver

I'm attempting to get my Roku streaming box with a channel called Roksbox to stream content off my MyBook World 2 whitelight. I want a directory listing of a certain folder of a share, Media. It's ...
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Using a port other than 80 with lighttpd on Mac OS?

I've just installed lighttpd on Mac OS 10.6, but: $ lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf -D 2011-10-05 19:01:32: (network.c.358) can't bind to port: 80 Permission denied $ lsof -i :80 [a ton of processes] ...
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Trying to install lighttpd with macports, but get 'upgrade openssl failed'?

I want to install lighttpd with macports, but: $ sudo port install lighttpd ---> Computing dependencies for openssl ---> Building openssl Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell ...
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lighttpd cant bind port permission denied

I installed lighttpd, tried to run it service lighttpd start and got error like the one i post below. Please dont give me that crap about needing root (because I am root) or about ports higher than ...
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I left my .git directory readable by the web server, what risks do I have?

On one of my web applications, I accidentally left the .git directory readable by the web server for the last few weeks. Index listing was disabled. Visiting the website.com/.git URL would result in a ...
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Redirect from HTTP to HTTPs in lighthttpd

How can I redirect from HTTP to HTTPS with lighthttpd? There are tons of lighttpd config snippets floating around to make this happen, but so far none of these really worked. Currently I am still ...
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What is the biggest bottleneck for a web server? [closed]

I am the lead engineer for a startup, and because of that, I am in charge of managing the servers. When building/purchasing servers for the site, It would be good to know what the biggest bottleneck ...
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The lighttpd+Python equivalent of Apache+PHP+FastCGI+suEXEC (or: lighttpd FastCGI-executing Python scripts with the permission of the owner)

It's been years since I last had anything to do with web servers. The last time, I found that Apache along with FastCGI (actually mod_fcgid) and suEXEC gave me a seemingly perfect way to handle PHP; ...
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Running a shell script in a web server as if it was interactive

I have a shell script (csh) - I didn't write it so I can't change it now. The script does a lot of parsing of log files, calls other scripts in languages like Perl and Tcl, creates new files and calls ...
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Information about linux permissions

I have created a user and a group named the same (lighttpd:lighttpd) Now I have to start the lighy server with these user:group... ok Now, I have added a website (vhost) to run with lighy, it works ...
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Super-lightweight server for ad redirecting

For most annoying ad sites I add mapping to 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts file and I use lighttpd binded to that ip to show empty page or empty image for requests (using regexp). Are there any alternatives, ...
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How to set up lighttpd via configuration file on Ubuntu 9.10? [closed]

I am trying to run [lighttpd][1] on Ubuntu 9.10. I get the conf file from the doc directory of lighttpd source. $ sudo ./lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf $ ps -ef | grep lighttpd root 2094 1 0 ...