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yac

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 3

lighty and apache double-failure

Hi. After some time the time for Arch has come again. Everything setted up nad running... excluding ANY webserver. I prefer lighttpd as apache is overkill for me... I installed lighttpd, php and fcgi, set

cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

in php.ini and uncommented few lines in lighhtpd.conf.

/etc/rc.d/lighttpd start

results in [DONE] but it fails(wtf?!). Let's try it manually:

lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
2007-10-23 09:50:13: (mod_fastcgi.c.900) bind failed for: unix:/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket-0 No such file or directory 
2007-10-23 09:50:13: (mod_fastcgi.c.1336) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed. 
2007-10-23 09:50:13: (server.c.895) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

I checked howto, nothing interesting here... whatever. Apache just dies insted.

apachectl -k start

results in return code 1 without any output, syntax is allright(I didn't modifiet shipped config after all)

apachectl -t
Syntax OK

The question is... WTF?! Installing both of these webservers was a matter of a minute in both debian and gentoo and this is fresh Arch Don't Panic mostly stable install, so I really don't understand... Any hints appreciated.

moses

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From: Finland

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 28

Re: lighty and apache double-failure

Check the logs for possible hints

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jordi

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Registered: 2006-12-16

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Re: lighty and apache double-failure

2007-10-23 09:50:13: (mod_fastcgi.c.900) bind failed for: unix:/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket-0 No such file or directory

what does your `fastcgi.server = ( ".php" = >` part look like?

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yac

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 3

Re: lighty and apache double-failure

Thanks for suggestions. I had to assign lighty to a user and create /var/run/lighttpd with right permissions for that user. It works fine now, but I don't understand why this wasn't done automaticaly?

yac

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 3

Re: lighty and apache double-failure

Could you elaborate on how you actually got it to work, im a lil confused on how to assign lighttpd as the user and crate the file thats needed in the /var/run/ director.

I changed user and group in lighttpd.conf to www, changed logrotate configuration as suggested, chowned /var/log/lighttpd to www:www and removed and recreated /var/run/lighttpd with mentioned permissions. Ugly yet working...