I am able to run lighttpd on ubuntu 9.10.
But when i tried to setup fastcgi with lighttpd by putting this in the ligttpd.conf file:
#### fastcgi module
fastcgi.server = ( "/fastcgi_scripts/" =>
(( "host" => "127.0.0.1",
"port" => "9098",
"check-local" => "disable",
"bin-path" => "/usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi",
"docroot" => "/" # remote server may use
# it's own docroot
))
)
This is what I get in the error.log in ligttpd:
2010-03-07 21:00:11: (log.c.166) server started
2010-03-07 21:00:11: (mod_fastcgi.c.1104) the fastcgi-backend /usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi failed to start:
2010-03-07 21:00:11: (mod_fastcgi.c.1108) child exited with status 1 /usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi
2010-03-07 21:00:11: (mod_fastcgi.c.1111) If you're trying to run your app as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
If this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2010-03-07 21:00:11: (mod_fastcgi.c.1399) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2010-03-07 21:00:11: (server.c.931) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
I do have cgi-fcgi in /usr/local/bin:
$ which cgi-fcgi
/usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi
'/usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi' is the executable after I download and compile fast-cgi.
Here is my lighttpd conf file:
$ more lighttpd.conf
# lighttpd configuration file
#
# use it as a base for lighttpd 1.0.0 and above
#
# $Id: lighttpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/11/03 22:26:05 weigon Exp $
############ Options you really have to take care of ####################
## modules to load
# at least mod_access and mod_accesslog should be loaded
# all other module should only be loaded if really neccesary
# - saves some time
# - saves memory
server.modules = (
# "mod_rewrite",
# "mod_redirect",
# "mod_alias",
"mod_access",
# "mod_trigger_b4_dl",
# "mod_auth",
# "mod_status",
# "mod_setenv",
"mod_fastcgi",
# "mod_proxy",
# "mod_simple_vhost",
# "mod_evhost",
# "mod_userdir",
# "mod_cgi",
# "mod_compress",
# "mod_ssi",
# "mod_usertrack",
# "mod_expire",
# "mod_secdownload",
# "mod_rrdtool",
"mod_accesslog" )
## A static document-root. For virtual hosting take a look at the
## mod_simple_vhost module.
server.document-root = "/srv/www/htdocs/"
## where to send error-messages to
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
# files to check for if .../ is requested
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html",
"index.htm", "default.htm" )
## set the event-handler (read the performance section in the manual)
# server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue" # needed on OS X
# mimetype mapping
mimetype.assign = (
".pdf" => "application/pdf",
".sig" => "application/pgp-signature",
".spl" => "application/futuresplash",
".class" => "application/octet-stream",
".ps" => "application/postscript",
".torrent" => "application/x-bittorrent",
".dvi" => "application/x-dvi",
".gz" => "application/x-gzip",
".pac" => "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig",
".swf" => "application/x-shockwave-flash",
".tar.gz" => "application/x-tgz",
".tgz" => "application/x-tgz",
".tar" => "application/x-tar",
".zip" => "application/zip",
".mp3" => "audio/mpeg",
".m3u" => "audio/x-mpegurl",
".wma" => "audio/x-ms-wma",
".wax" => "audio/x-ms-wax",
".ogg" => "application/ogg",
".wav" => "audio/x-wav",
".gif" => "image/gif",
".jar" => "application/x-java-archive",
".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
".png" => "image/png",
".xbm" => "image/x-xbitmap",
".xpm" => "image/x-xpixmap",
".xwd" => "image/x-xwindowdump",
".css" => "text/css",
".html" => "text/html",
".htm" => "text/html",
".js" => "text/javascript",
".asc" => "text/plain",
".c" => "text/plain",
".cpp" => "text/plain",
".log" => "text/plain",
".conf" => "text/plain",
".text" => "text/plain",
".txt" => "text/plain",
".dtd" => "text/xml",
".xml" => "text/xml",
".mpeg" => "video/mpeg",
".mpg" => "video/mpeg",
".mov" => "video/quicktime",
".qt" => "video/quicktime",
".avi" => "video/x-msvideo",
".asf" => "video/x-ms-asf",
".asx" => "video/x-ms-asf",
".wmv" => "video/x-ms-wmv",
".bz2" => "application/x-bzip",
".tbz" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
".tar.bz2" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
# default mime type
"" => "application/octet-stream",
)
# Use the "Content-Type" extended attribute to obtain mime type if possible
#mimetype.use-xattr = "enable"
## send a different Server: header
## be nice and keep it at lighttpd
# server.tag = "lighttpd"
#### accesslog module
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
## deny access the file-extensions
#
# ~ is for backupfiles from vi, emacs, joe, ...
# .inc is often used for code includes which should in general not be part
# of the document-root
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" {
server.range-requests = "disable"
}
##
# which extensions should not be handle via static-file transfer
#
# .php, .pl, .fcgi are most often handled by mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
######### Options that are good to be but not neccesary to be changed #######
## bind to port (default: 80)
server.port = 9090
## bind to localhost (default: all interfaces)
server.bind = "127.0.0.1"
## error-handler for status 404
#server.error-handler-404 = "/error-handler.html"
#server.error-handler-404 = "/error-handler.php"
## to help the rc.scripts
#server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
###### virtual hosts
##
## If you want name-based virtual hosting add the next three settings and load
## mod_simple_vhost
##
## document-root =
## virtual-server-root + virtual-server-default-host + virtual-server-docroot
## or
## virtual-server-root + http-host + virtual-server-docroot
##
#simple-vhost.server-root = "/srv/www/vhosts/"
#simple-vhost.default-host = "www.example.org"
#simple-vhost.document-root = "/htdocs/"
##
## Format: <errorfile-prefix><status-code>.html
## -> ..../status-404.html for 'File not found'
#server.errorfile-prefix = "/usr/share/lighttpd/errors/status-"
#server.errorfile-prefix = "/srv/www/errors/status-"
## virtual directory listings
#dir-listing.activate = "enable"
## select encoding for directory listings
#dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"
## enable debugging
#debug.log-request-header = "enable"
#debug.log-response-header = "enable"
#debug.log-request-handling = "enable"
#debug.log-file-not-found = "enable"
### only root can use these options
#
# chroot() to directory (default: no chroot() )
#server.chroot = "/"
## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
#server.username = "wwwrun"
## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
#server.groupname = "wwwrun"
#### compress module
#compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
#compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html")
#### proxy module
## read proxy.txt for more info
#proxy.server = ( ".php" =>
# ( "localhost" =>
# (
# "host" => "192.168.0.101",
# "port" => 80
# )
# )
# )
#### fastcgi module
fastcgi.server = ( "/fastcgi_scripts/" =>
(( "host" => "127.0.0.1",
"port" => 1026,
"check-local" => "disable",
"bin-path" => "/usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi",
#"docroot" => "/" # remote server may use
# it's own docroot
))
)
## read fastcgi.txt for more info
## for PHP don't forget to set cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 in the php.ini
#fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
# ( "localhost" =>
# (
# "socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.s
ocket",
# "bin-path" => "/usr/local/bin/php-cgi"
# )
# )
# )
#### CGI module
#cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl",
# ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )
#
#### SSL engine
#ssl.engine = "enable"
#ssl.pemfile = "/etc/ssl/private/lighttpd.pem"
#### status module
#status.status-url = "/server-status"
#status.config-url = "/server-config"
#### auth module
## read authentication.txt for more info
#auth.backend = "plain"
#auth.backend.plain.userfile = "lighttpd.user"
#auth.backend.plain.groupfile = "lighttpd.group"
#auth.backend.ldap.hostname = "localhost"
#auth.backend.ldap.base-dn = "dc=my-domain,dc=com"
#auth.backend.ldap.filter = "(uid=$)"
#auth.require = ( "/server-status" =>
# (
# "method" => "digest",
# "realm" => "download archiv",
# "require" => "user=jan"
# ),
# "/server-config" =>
# (
# "method" => "digest",
# "realm" => "download archiv",
# "require" => "valid-user"
# )
# )
#### url handling modules (rewrite, redirect, access)
#url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "/server-status" )
#url.redirect = ( "^/wishlist/(.+)" => "http://www.123.org/$1" )
#### both rewrite/redirect support back reference to regex conditional using %n
#$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www\.(.*)" {
# url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://%1/$1" )
#}
#
# define a pattern for the host url finding
# %% => % sign
# %0 => domain name + tld
# %1 => tld
# %2 => domain name without tld
# %3 => subdomain 1 name
# %4 => subdomain 2 name
#
#evhost.path-pattern = "/srv/www/vhosts/%3/htdocs/"
#### expire module
#expire.url = ( "/buggy/" => "access 2 hours", "/asdhas/" => "ac
cess plus 1 seconds 2 minutes")
#### ssi
#ssi.extension = ( ".shtml" )
#### rrdtool
#rrdtool.binary = "/usr/bin/rrdtool"
#rrdtool.db-name = "/var/lib/lighttpd/lighttpd.rrd"
#### setenv
#setenv.add-request-header = ( "TRAV_ENV" => "mysql://user@host/db" )
#setenv.add-response-header = ( "X-Secret-Message" => "42" )
## for mod_trigger_b4_dl
# trigger-before-download.gdbm-filename = "/var/lib/lighttpd/trigger.db"
# trigger-before-download.memcache-hosts = ( "127.0.0.1:11211" )
# trigger-before-download.trigger-url = "^/trigger/"
# trigger-before-download.download-url = "^/download/"
# trigger-before-download.deny-url = "http://127.0.0.1/index.html"
# trigger-before-download.trigger-timeout = 10
#### variable usage:
## variable name without "." is auto prefixed by "var." and becomes "var.bar"
#bar = 1
#var.mystring = "foo"
## integer add
#bar += 1
## string concat, with integer cast as string, result: "www.foo1.com"
#server.name = "www." + mystring + var.bar + ".com"
## array merge
#index-file.names = (foo + ".php") + index-file.names
#index-file.names += (foo + ".php")
#### include
#include /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd-inc.conf
## same as above if you run: "lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf"
#include "lighttpd-inc.conf"
#### include_shell
#include_shell "echo var.a=1"
## the above is same as:
#var.a=1
Thank you for your help.
Best Answer
I get the same error when I try to use helloweb c application as my sample fast-cgi script binary. The error is due to when lighty starts running the script, it couldn't find the associated shared library libfcgi.so.0.
Once I update my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ldconfig, sample fcgi-script binary able to locate the library fine.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/libldconfig
The error.log doesn't say the library is missing when you invoke lighttpd as service (
sudo service lighttpd start).but if you run lighttpd from it's sources where you can build lighty (
sudo lighttpd -D -f doc/config/mylighttpd.conf) you get the error saying.hope this helps someone.