Virtual hosts on LightTPD

Virtual hosts on LightTPD

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-lighttpd-web-server-setting-up-virtual-hosting.html

LightTPD optional modules

"mod_access",
# The access module is used to deny access to files.

Options
url.access-deny
Denies access to all files with any of given trailing path names.
Default value:empty

access.deny-all
Denies access to all files.
Note: access.deny-all should be used with a conditional to limit it (only from lighty 1.5x)

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"mod_accesslog",

accesslog.filename
name of the file where the accesslog should be written to if syslog is not used.

if the name starts with a '|' the rest of the name is taken as the name of a process which will be spawned and will get the output

e.g.:

accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd.log" 

$HTTP["host"] == "mail.example.org" {
  accesslog.filename = "|/usr/bin/cronolog" 
}

if you have multiple workers on 1.4.x (now, the current version) and want all access logs to be written (without that, only one worker will write logs), use accesslog.filename = "\|/usr/sbin/cronolog.."

Default: disabled

"mod_alias"
The alias module is used to specify a special document-root for a given url-subset.
e.g

alias.url = ( "/cgi-bin/" => "/var/www/servers/www.example.org/cgi-bin/" )

and additional locations can be added

alias.url += ( "/content" => "/var/www/servers/www.somecontent.org/" )

Trailing slashes are stripped from the url before matching an alias.

i.e. the alias "/content/ => "/dirtocontent/" will not match the url "/content/"; 

it matches only something like "/content/somefile" or "/content/somesubdir/".

So in most cases you shouldn't use a trailing slash on the left side,

but DO use it on the right side!): 

e.g. "/content" => "/dirtocontent/"

Now 

   "/content_x1/" is mapped to "/dirtocontent/_x1", 

   "/content/" -> "/dirtocontent/" and 

   "/content/somefile" -> "/dirtocontent//somefile" (yes, double slash).

If you don't use it on the right side too, 

   "/content_x1/" is mapped to "/dirtocontent_x1"

which you probably don't want.

alias.url = (
  "/aa" => "/domain_aa_site/"
  "/somewhere/else" => "/other/docroot/"
)

#                               "mod_auth",

#                               "mod_cgi",

#                               "mod_cml",

#                               "mod_compress",

#                               "mod_evasive",

#                               "mod_evhost",

#                               "mod_expire",

#                               "mod_extforward",

#                               "mod_fastcgi",

#                               "mod_flv_streaming",

#                               "mod_magnet",

#                               "mod_mysql_vhost",

#                               "mod_proxy",

#                               "mod_redirect",

#                               "mod_rewrite",

#                               "mod_rrdtool",

#                               "mod_scgi",

#                               "mod_secdownload",

#                               "mod_setenv",

#                               "mod_simple_vhost",

#                               "mod_ssi",

                                "mod_status",

#                               "mod_trigger_b4_dl",

#                               "mod_userdir",

#                               "mod_usertrack",

#                               "mod_webdav"

Configuring LightTPD for Windows 7 - part 1 - File locations and port

Part 1a - File Locations

Stored in
<install directory>/conf/lighttpd.conf
in the server.document-root property

e.g.

server.document-root = "/var/www/servers/www.example.org/pages/" 

or

server.document-root        = server_root + "/htdocs"

Key thing: the files do not need to be stored in a sub-directory of the web-server's install directory.

Part 1b - Server Port

server.port = 3000

or

## bind to port (default: 80)

#server.port                = 80

Starting and stopping LightTPD on Windows 7

I've just done some testing with Mongoose web server on my PC.

Mongoose was taking between 600ms and 6 secsonds to serve a PHP page.

I think it's time to get something faster.

Or at least, to check to see if there is anything faster I can run on my PC.

First up LightTPD


Simply copy the contents of LightTPD.zip somewhere on your PC.

Double-click on LightTPD.exe  to start it up.

Ctrl-c in the running shell window to stop it.

LightTPD is serving it's static html default home page in 22ms.  Potentially much faster than Mongoose.


Next steps:

How to configure LightTPD to access teh html files to serve

How to configure LightTPD to serve multiple virtual hosts

How to configure LightTPD to serve PHP

Measure the speed difference