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Lighttpd virtual hosting

Duffy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:42:51 +0000

Virtual hosting allows you to host many websites from one server.

Setup The Folders and users

adduser domain1
addgroup domain1
adduser www-data domain1
mkdir -p /home/domain1
chown domain1:domain1 -R /home/domain1
chmod 750 -R /home/domain1

adduser domain2
addgroup domain2
adduser www-data domain2
mkdir -p /home/domain2
chown domain2:domain2 -R /home/domain2
chmod 750 -R /home/domain2

Lighttpd Config

Open your lighttpd.conf
```
nano /etc/lighttpd.conf
```

Add the following for the virtual host configuration

$HTTP["host"] == "domain1.com" {
server.document-root = "/home/domain1"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain1/access.log"
}

$HTTP["host"] == "domain2.com" {
server.document-root = "/home/domain2"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain2/access.log"
}

Save your config and restart lighttpd
```
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
```

Elements made easy

Duffy — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:38:57 +0000

XRAY is a bookmarklet that will allow you to quickly and easily view the elements of a webpage

Drag Xray to your bookmarks tab
XRAY
Load any webpage
Click on the xray bookmark
Then click on any element and it will show you all its css values

Lighttpd On Windows

Duffy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:12:43 +0000

Setting Up Lighttpd

Download the lighttpd setup file from here. I chose the Setup Wizard (.exe) version.
Double-click on the downloaded executable to start the installation.
When the installation is done go to your lighttpd directory(by default its C:\program files\lighttpd) and run TestMode.bat A console window should open to indicate the server is started.
Go to http://localhost this should show a lighttpd test page.

Enabling PHP

Download php .zip package from here
Extract it to C:\php
Edit lighttpd-inc.conf (i.e. “C:\Program Files\LightTPD\conf\lighttpd-inc.conf”) with the following:
1. Remove the comment tag(#) for "mod-cgi" (Line 20)
2. Add this line (assuming that PHP was installed on C drive):
3. cgi.assign = ( “.php” => “C:/php/php-cgi.exe” )
In your PHP directory rename the file php.ini-recommended to php.ini and edit php.ini with the following:
1. short_open_tag = On
2. display_errors = On
3. doc_root = “C:\Progra~1\LightTPD\htdocs”

Testing PHP

You can test php by creating a file containing:

Place the file in your htdocs directory (i.e. “C:\Program Files\LightTPD\htdocs”), open up your browser and browse to the page. It should show you the php info page.