#!/bin/sh

LIGHTTPD_CONF=/home/jarkko/domains/piforienteering.fi/sites/piffen-new/config/lighttpd.conf
PIDFILE=/home/jarkko/var/run/lighttpd.pid

case "$1" in
    start)
      # Starts the lighttpd deamon
      echo "Starting Lighttpd"
      lighttpd -f $LIGHTTPD_CONF
    
  ;;
    stop)
      # stops the daemon bt cat'ing the pidfile
      echo "Stopping Lighttpd"
      kill `cat $PIDFILE`
  ;;
    restart)
        ## Stop the service regardless of whether it was
        ## running or not, start it again.
        echo "Restarting Lighttpd"
        $0 stop
        $0 start
  ;;
    reload)
      # reloads the config file by sending HUP
      echo "Reloading config"
      kill -HUP `cat $PIDFILE`
  ;;
    *)
            echo "Usage: lighttpdctrl (start|stop|restart|reload)"
            exit 1
        ;;
esac

This daedalus config as well as my previous snippet is meant to supplement chapter 5 of "Lighttpd the painless way".

This config is dependent on having a ~/lighttpd directory setup as described in that manual. Also, you must have the restart.rb script (again from my previous snippet) in the lighttpd folder.

As before, remember to swap out your USERNAME, DOMAIN, and PORT.

The first check here is that a lighttpd process is running. If not then it calls restart.rb which will kill any zombie dispatchers and restart lighttpd.

The second check is more of a departure from the original suggestion. Rather than checking that a specific file is generating the expected output, I go right to the source and verify that lighttpd is responding with an HTTP header on the port you were assigned. This is a pure indication of whether lighttpd is responsive on the correct port. It won't be fouled up by application errors or apache forwarding misconfiguration. More importantly, it won't generate a flood of restarts due to an unrelated code error.

Also, you will notice I set the checkinterval to 10 minutes. I felt this was a good compromise between keeping lighttpd up and saturating the server with unnecessary processing.

name: lighttpd
checkcommand: /bin/ps axww
checkregex: /lighttpd/
onfailcommand: /home/USERNAME/lighttpd/restart.rb
checkinterval: 600 
aftercommandwait: 120

name: lighttpd-external
checkcommand: /usr/local/bin/curl -I http://YOURDOMAIN.com:YOURPORT
checkregex: /^HTTP/s
onfailcommand: /usr/bin/killall -9 lighttpd; /home/USERNAME/lighttpd/restart.rb
checkinterval: 600 
aftercommandwait: 120

By using this script to start lighttpd you can be sure you won't be leaving rogues dispatchers around sucking up memory and generally pissing jason off. Don't get caught with your pants down!

Make sure to change USERNAME below, as well as any paths that may be different in your case.

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
#Modified from Julik's original code posted to TextDrive forums.

pstab = `ps axww`

def kill_fcgi_proc(line)
  its = line.strip.split(/\s+/)
  pid = its[0]
  puts "KILLING #{line}"
  `kill -9 #{pid}`
  sleep(3)
end

if pstab =~ /\/usr\/local\/sbin\/lighttpd -f/
  
  puts "Lighttpd still running."

else

  pstab.scan(/^.*dispatch\.fcgi\s*$/) do |line|
    kill_fcgi_proc line
  end

  pstab = `ps axww`
  
  if pstab =~ /dispatch\.fcgi/
    puts "Error, rogue dispatch.fcgi's still pissing jason off."
  else
    puts "Rogue dispatch.fcgi's cleared, starting lighty!"
    `/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /home/USERNAME/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf`
  end
  
end

Based on: http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=5094

Get Lighttpd working on Textdrive first (http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/9), then to add new Rails apps (ex: typo.domain.tld) follow the steps below...

1. ssh into your account

ssh username@servername.textdrive.com

2. Create a new directory for your rails apps (if you don't have one already):

mkdir ~/apps/ (or whatever you want to name it)

3. Move into that directory:

cd ~/apps/

4. svn checkout the app you want:

Example:
svn checkout svn://leetsoft.com/typo/trunk typo

5. Move into that new app's directory:

Example:
cd typo

6. Change the first line of appname/public/dispatch.rb and appname/public/dispatch.fcgi to:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby18

7. Set-up MySQL database:

a.

mysql -u username -p

b.

create database textdriveusername_appname;

c.

exit;

d.

mysql -u username -p textdriveusername_appname < db/schema.mysql.sql

8. Create a symbolic link to your app's public folder, inside of your public_html folder:

ln -s /home/username/apps/appname/public /home/username/public_html/appname

9. Add an $HTTP["host"] entry into your lighttpd.conf for the new app (ex: http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/6 and http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/187)

10. Kill all your dispatch.fcgi processes and your lighttpd process (ex: ttp://textsnippets.com/posts/show/206)

11. Restart lighttpd:

/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /home/username/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

12. Navigate to http://appname.yourdomain.tld

From: hhttp://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?pid=43091#p43091

Kill the processes with:

killall -9 -u your_username lighttpd
killall -9 -u your_username ruby18

...or do a

ps aux

Look for the lighttpd and ruby18 process, take note of their PID (process ID - the first number in the row) and do a:

kill -9 pid (replacing pid with the PID you found)

/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /home/avshop/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(typo|blog)\.simplicio\.(com|net|org)" {
server.document-root = "/home/rsimplicio/web/public/typo/"

url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "index.html", "^([^.]+)$" => "$1.html" )
server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
server.indexfiles = ( "dispatch.fcgi")

fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
( "Simplicio-typo" =>
(
"socket" => "/home/rsimplicio/web/lighttpd-typo-fcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/home/rsimplicio/web/public/typo/dispatch.fcgi",
"bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" => "production" ),
"max-load-per-proc" => 25,
"min-procs" => 1,
"max-procs" => 1,
"idle-timeout" => 60
)
)
)
}

The following is my setup on OS X 10.4.2 using PHP 5.0.5

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5-fcgi --enable-fastcgi --enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-cli --enable-memory-limit --with-layout=GNU --with-regex=php

make

sudo make install

The compile flags enable a fairly basic PHP setup, you may need to add more options for things like MySQL, etc. DO NOT ADD --with-apxs OR --with-apxs2 AS A COMPILE FLAG -- THESE ARE APACHE ONLY AND WILL PROBABLY BREAK UNDER LIGHTTPD!

Add the following to your lighttpd.conf file

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
                   ( "localhost" =>
                     ( "socket" => "/tmp/php5-fcgi.socket",
                       "bin-path" => "/usr/local/php5-fcgi/bin/php"
                     )
                   )
                 )

Restart lighttpd, now with PHP support

I use this script to avoid having to do the killall dance on my local dev box constantly when tweaking my lighttpd.conf

#!/bin/sh
sudo killall -9 lighttpd
sudo killall -9 ruby
sudo /opt/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /opt/local/etc/lighttpd.conf

Make the script executable (chmod u+x), put it in your path, invoke by simply typing the name of the script. This also kills off any ruby processes, which lighttpd will restart when it reboots.

The path to lighttpd and the lighttpd.conf files are based on the installation from DarwinPorts - adjust as needed.

(This from http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/chapter/62#page145)

This snippet is not mine-- it's taken directly from Robert Simplicio's excellent guide "Lighttpd: The painless way". However, it was buried deep in the last section, and I wanted to ensure it wasn't missed.

Once you've gone to all the trouble of configuring Lighttpd, make sure it's actually serving out your pages:

curl -I http://domain.name

Your should see something like this:

-bash-2.05b$ curl -I http://simplicio.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:27:40 GMT
Server: lighttpd | TextDriven
Last-Modified: Tue, 10 May 2005 03:56:11 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-Powered-By: The blood, sweat and tears of the fine, fine TextDrive staff
Served-By: TextDrive

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(typo|blog)\.simplicio\.(com|net|org)" {
server.document-root = "/home/rsimplicio/web/public/typo/"

url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "index.html", "^([^.]+)$" => "$1.html" )
  server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi" 
server.indexfiles = ( "dispatch.fcgi")

 fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
   ( "Simplicio-typo" =>
        (
          "socket"   => "/home/rsimplicio/web/lighttpd-typo-fcgi.socket",
          "bin-path" => "/home/rsimplicio/web/public/typo/dispatch.fcgi",
          "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" => "production" ),
          "max-load-per-proc" => 25,
          "min-procs" => 1,
          "max-procs" => 1,
          "idle-timeout" => 60
        )
    )
  ) 
}

Save the following in /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.lighttpd.plist to have lighttpd start automatically on any OS X 10.4 computer. Note that this assumes a working DarwinPorts lighttpd installation (otherwise you will need to change the paths to the lighttpd executable). Note that this also assumes that the lighttpd.conf file is in /opt/local/etc.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>net.lighttpd</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/opt/local/sbin/lighttpd</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/opt/local/sbin/lighttpd</string>
                <string>-f/opt/local/etc/lighttpd.conf</string>
                <string>-D</string>
        </array>
</dict>
</plist>

ps aux|grep youruser|grep dispatch|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9

of course you can use this for any process and just change the 'dispatch' part

I thought I'd share my lighttpd config file. My main application driving http://www.standardbehaviour.com is at ~/web/, which means the dispatch.fcgi file is in ~/web/public/dispatch.fcgi.

# Modules to load {{{1
server.modules              = (
                                "mod_rewrite",
                                "mod_redirect",
                                "mod_access",
                                "mod_fastcgi",
                                "mod_compress",
                                "mod_accesslog" )
# }}}1

# files to check for if .../ is requested

# Mimetype mapping {{{1
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"          =>      "audio/x-wav",
  ".wav"          =>      "audio/x-wav",
  ".gif"          =>      "image/gif",
  ".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",
  ".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"
 )
# }}}

server.document-root       = "/home/mveldthuis/web/public/"
server.bind                = "standardbehaviour.com"
server.port                = 8534
server.pid-file            = "/home/mveldthuis/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.tag                 = "lighttpd"
server.username            = "mveldthuis"
server.groupname           = "mveldthuis"
accesslog.filename         = "/home/mveldthuis/var/log/lighttpd.access.log"
server.errorlog            = "/home/mveldthuis/var/log/lighttpd.error.log"
server.indexfiles          = ( "index.php", "index.html",
                               "index.htm", "default.htm" )
url.access-deny            = ( "~", ".inc" )

# Main site, I want this on www or no www, and on .com, .net and .org
$HTTP["host"] =~ "(www\.)?standardbehaviour\.(com|net|org)" {
  server.document-root     = "/home/mveldthuis/web/public/"
  server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
  fastcgi.server= (".fcgi" =>
    ("StandardBehaviour.com" =>
      (
        "socket" => "/home/mveldthuis/var/lighttpd-fcgi.socket",
        "bin-path" => "/home/mveldthuis/web/public/dispatch.fcgi",
        "bin-environment" => ("RAILS_ENV" => "production" ),
        "max-load-per-proc" => 4,
        "min-procs" => 1,
        "max-procs" => 2,
        "idle-timeout" => 60
      )
    )
  )
}

# This is the images subdomain, serves mainly just the files,
# but I have fileNice there which is PHP.
$HTTP["host"] =~ "images\.standardbehaviour\.(com|net|org)" {
  server.document-root     = "/home/mveldthuis/subdomains/images/"
  server.dir-listing       = "enable"
  server.indexfiles        = ("index.php")
  server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php"
  fastcgi.server = (".php" =>
    ("ImagesStandardBehaviour" =>
      ("socket" => "/home/mveldthuis/var/lighttpd-images-php.socket",
       "bin-path" => "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi",
       "bin-environment" =>
         ("PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "1",
          "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "2500"
         )
      )
    )
  )
}

# Pretty much the same as images, but then for experiments.
$HTTP["host"] =~ "experiments\.standardbehaviour\.(com|net|org)" {
  server.document-root          = "/home/mveldthuis/subdomains/experiments/"
  server.dir-listing = "enable"
  server.indexfiles  = ("index.php", "index.html")
  fastcgi.server = (".php" =>
    ("ImagesStandardBehaviour" =>
      ("socket" => "/home/mveldthuis/var/lighttpd-images-php.socket",
       "bin-path" => "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi",
       "bin-environment" =>
         ("PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "1",
          "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "2500"
         )
      )
    )
  )
}

Hope this helps anyone.

[code]
server.port = 80
server.document-root = "/Library/WebServer/Documents/"
server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue"
server.modules = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_compress" )


# Edit paths and everything in CAPS to suit your need.

$HTTP["host"] == "HOST_NAME" {

server.document-root = "/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Rails/YOUR_APP_NAME/public"
server.errorlog = "/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Rails/YOUR_APP_NAME/log/server.log"

server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
( "localhost" =>
(
"min-procs" => 1,
"max-procs" => 5,
"socket" => "/tmp/railsapp.YOUR_APP_NAME.fcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Rails/YOUR_APP_NAME/public/dispatch.fcgi",
"bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" => "development" )
)
)
)
}

# 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" => "audio/x-wav",
".wav" => "audio/x-wav",
".gif" => "image/gif",
".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",
".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"
)
[/code]

ssl.ca-file = "/usr/local/openssl/certs/chain.ca.crt"
ssl.pemfile = "/usr/local/openssl/certs/server.pem"

Make sure you have mod_redirect in server.modules, then add this to your lighttpd.conf:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^domain\.com$" {
  url.redirect = (
    "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domain.com/$1",
    ""       => "http://www.domain.com/"
  )
}

I wasn't able to come up with a way to do it in a single rule. It seems that only "" (not even "(.*)") will match the root request.

If you want to add a virtualhost on your Mac OS X box without having to wait around for ages, then the easiest way to do so is to shove a line into /etc/hosts and flush the dnscache. Here's a friendly bash function to throw into your .bashrc:

function edithosts {
        if [ -x "`which $EDITOR`" ] || [ -x "`which $1`" ]
        then
                if [ -x "`which $EDITOR`" ]
                then
                        export TEMP_EDIT="`which $EDITOR`"
                else
                        export TEMP_EDIT="`which $1`"
                fi
                echo "* Using ${TEMP_EDIT} as editor"
                $TEMP_EDIT /etc/hosts && echo "* Successfully edited /etc/hosts"
                lookupd -flushcache && echo "* Flushed local DNS cache"
        else
                echo "Usage: edithosts [editor]"
                echo "(The editor is optional, and defaults to \$EDITOR)"
        fi
        unset TEMP_EDIT
}

More simply, you can just flush the DNS cache manually with:

lookupd -flushcache

I love this shit:

server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php"

This single line seems to work for my WP install. I needed to add a couple of redirects and rewrites to handle my RSS feed, since I use Feedburner, but this line does all the heavy lifting...

Place it after server.document-root, either in the main section or in your virtual host sub-sections...

server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php?error=404"