Lighttpd

2011-05-04T15:57:23Z

Thrillhouse: /* Add files to the web directory: */

= Configuring the Lighttpd web server =

== Preliminaries==
# Gain [[Portal:Accessing_Linux | access to Linux]] on your device.
# Setup the [[Next_steps | Optware Feed]].
# Open the root file system to read/write with rootfs_open.

== Install Lighttpd with PHP support ==

<pre><nowiki>ipkg-opt install lighttpd php-fcgi</nowiki></pre>

== Tweak settings ==

<pre><nowiki>vi /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf</nowiki></pre>
If you are going to run static HTML pages, there is no need to do this. If you want the ability to run PHP pages then this line must be uncommented:

<pre><nowiki> "mod_fastcgi", </nowiki></pre>

You may also want to adjust the port that the web server runs on. Sprint blocks port 80 and this package installs Lighttpd to run on port 8081 :

<pre><nowiki>
## bind to port (default: 80)
server.port = 8081
</nowiki></pre>

Start the web server:

<pre><nowiki>/opt/etc/init.d/S80lighttpd start</nowiki></pre>

== Add a startup script ==

I placed a file at /etc/event.d/optware-lighttpd so that the web server starts up after each reboot and the iptables firewall rules are executed to allow access to port 8080:

<pre><nowiki>
# don't start until the WebOS finishes it's normal boot
# that way no delay is added to the GUI startup
start on stopped finish
stop on runlevel [!2]

# Restart the lighttpd daemon if it exits/dies
respawn

exec /opt/sbin/lighttpd -f /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

pre-start script
/usr/sbin/iptables -D INPUT -p tcp --dport 8081 -j ACCEPT || /bin/true
/usr/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 8081 -j ACCEPT
end script
</nowiki></pre>

Reboot the phone so that the firewall rules are executed:

<pre><nowiki>/sbin/reboot</nowiki></pre>

== Add files to the web directory: ==

The default home directory lives at:

<pre><nowiki>/opt/share/www/</nowiki></pre>

Sample gps.php file that will load your current location via Google maps:

<pre><nowiki>
<?php
$gps = `luna-send -n 1 palm://com.palm.location/getCurrentPosition {} 2>&1 | cut -d, -f4,5 | sed -r 's/[^-\.0-9,]//g'`;
?>
<html>
<iframe width="600" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&q=<?php echo $gps ?>&z=16&ll=<?php echo $gps ?>&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&q=<?php echo $gps ?>&z=16&ll=<?php echo $gps ?>&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>
</html>
</nowiki></pre>

FrankenPre webos 2.1 gps.php needs the following (getCurrentPosition different output for webOS 2.0+?):
<pre><nowiki>
`luna-send -n 1 palm://com.palm.location/getCurrentPosition {} 2>&1 | cut -d, -f5,6 | sed -r 's/[^-\.0-9,]//g'`
</nowiki></pre>

= Other Considerations =

== Dynamic DNS ==
# Install the ez-ipupdate package
# Configure ez-ipupdate to update a DDNS service any time the EVDO IP changes
# CNAME record of primary domain - I have a CNAME record pointed to my DDNS record so that I always have the most up-to-date IP of my phone

== Log files ==
# Need to keep an eye on the /opt/var/log/lighttpd/ log files and make sure they are rotated consistently

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