server setup

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 22:09:11

what would be the best way to setup a lightweight server with phpbb and dokuwiki + php (obviously) I would prefer not to use apache.

dtw · 2005-08-09 22:29:28

lightttpd? sure there is plenty on the wiki - cactus is your man for this

phrakture · 2005-08-09 22:31:20

jellywerker wrote:

what would be the best way to setup a lightweight server with phpbb and dokuwiki + php (obviously) I would prefer not to use apache.

use lighttpd, recompile php with fastcgi support, then download the needed php stuff (bb and dokuwiki) - you'll also need to setup mysql for this - there's alot of info in the wiki about this

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 22:33:57

thanks

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 22:52:26

hmm, I don't quit get the lighttpd configuration part

cactus · 2005-08-09 22:53:25

no need to recompile php. just install the php-cgi package in my personal repo (has php tidy support)..or..download the php-cgi package that I put in [community]..then sit back and enjoy the php-cgi goodness.

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 22:58:00

ok, I installed the lighttp in your repo (edit: klapmeutz is yours right?) and fcgi from the main repo, then installed php from your repo, but now what?

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 23:04:36

ok, seems that is not your repo, I uninstalled it all, I need something a bit more step by step

Edit: I undertand it mostly, it's just that wiki page should be a stub as it doesn't tell all.

cactus · 2005-08-09 23:16:14

my repo is cactus..but you can just use [community].
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lig … nd_Non-SSL

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fas … d_lighttpd

dtw · 2005-08-09 23:38:48

i told you cactus was the man

we should have "I'm the wo/man for ..." under our avatars.

Phrak, Xentac et al can have a snake
Cactus can have a server (?)...
Aroo,Sonix, Dusty et al can have a coffe cup...

You get the idea...

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 23:53:10

I saw that cactus, that is what I thought was incomplete in describing what to do.

jellywerker · 2005-08-09 23:53:58

ah, but that other link (for ssl) that helps, thanks

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 02:21:38

nvm, that wiki page is out of date, I did it to the letter and it doesn't work correctly, it wanted me to make logs and such in www/log, so again I uninstalled it, deleted everything, and removed the user, lighttpd seems to be much more trouble than it is worth.

cactus · 2005-08-10 03:05:40

it works fine for me. In fact, it works great! I love it!

I haven't updated my wiki in a quite a while though (mine was the ssl and non-ssl one). It is a wiki..so anyone is free to update and fix the darn thing.
With the arch lighttpd package in extra, much of the work that was required in my howto is no longer needed.

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 03:08:39

but I don't know how to fix it, so what do I do?

Edit: and which lighttpd package do I need? and which php one?

cactus · 2005-08-10 03:30:00

step 1: Install the lighttpd package from extra repository
step 2: install php
step 3: install php-cgi from the aur [community] repo
step 4: add/set 'cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1' in /etc/php.ini
step 5: install fcgi (it is in extra repository)
step 5: here you can choose one of three paths:
a) prespawn fcgi-php
b) adaptive spawn-fcgi-php
c) regular cgi php

in order of complexity: c->b->a
with a being most complex to setup. For c) put the following in lighttpd.conf

cgi.assign                 = ( ".php"  => "/usr/bin/php-cgi" )

for b and a..
start here: http://lighttpd.net/documentation/fastc … astcgi-php

Or look at the wiki pages I linked to. The info is a bit dated, but you should be able to expound on it. If not..then wait a week or two, and I will try to update my how-to.

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 03:37:02

well I installed lighttpd from extra, and edited the config like in your guie, and it fails to start

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 03:41:01

btw, thanks

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 03:49:11

it fails to compile for no F***ing reason!

(Can you tell I am getting a bit stressed over what whould be a breeze to setup?

cactus · 2005-08-10 05:46:30

compile? what are you trying to compile?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New … mmunity.5D

pacman -Sy lighttpd php php-cgi

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 19:02:32

the pkbuild from aur

cactus · 2005-08-10 19:48:13

use the binary then. it should work fine.

jellywerker · 2005-08-10 21:50:15

looks like I'll jsut wait a week for you tp update it, it still fails to start. btw, I meant start, not compile, lighttpd fails to start as a deamon using /etc/rc.d/lighttpd start.

phrakture · 2005-08-10 22:08:19

jellywerker wrote:

looks like I'll jsut wait a week for you tp update it, it still fails to start. btw, I meant start, not compile, lighttpd fails to start as a deamon using /etc/rc.d/lighttpd start.

check the logfile

cactus · 2005-08-10 23:45:25

aha.
well, the previous arch package for lighttpd had some issues that I was not entirely happy with. I have not had a chance to test out the new version of it, but I have been told things have been reworked a bit.

I am considering packaging lighttpd myself for personal use again, so I can be sure that it will conform more closely to my setup than to a standard setup that most users would use (the arch package should work fine for that, as it should). I really need to get packaging some things again. I have just been so dang busy..
:?

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