configuration
my fight with lighttpd at PLD Linux
Configuration of apache was easy (maybe because of the fact I made it many times), but apache is big like an elephant. I just want to serve dir indexes, so i didn’t need apache :). I tried to install lighttpd… and so the story goes:
Installation environment:
PLD AC 2.0 with ac, ac-updated, ac-supported and ac-ready packages
Lighttpd (today latest dist version is 1.4.18-8)
in poldek paste:
install lighttpd
and press enter
lighttpd in PLD has some dependencies which are installed with main package:
lighttpd-mod_dirlisting - generates HTML based directory listings with full CSS support
lighttpd-mod_indexfile - module for choosing index files
lighttpd-mod_staticfile - module for static file serving
webapps - is a package for having web applications configuration files and webserver config fragments in unified place
and it’s all…
/sbin/service lighttpd start
and you can check:
http://yourhost.com/
ok, but we need some more functions
first let’s check what we can muff 
open in your favorite editor this file
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
some description:
server.tag = “lighttpd super server”
you can change your server introduce
server.port = 80
if you want your server to use non standard port - change this option
really cool and standard option is trafic shaping (starting with version 1.3.8)
connection.kbytes-per-second = xy
limits the throughput for each single connection to the given limit in kbyte/s
and
server.kbytes-per-second = xx
limits the throughput for all connections
ok… maybe we need an ssl…
lighttpd supports SSLv2 and SSLv3, so the only thing we have to do is:
poldek -i lighttpd-ssl
make a self-signed certificate:
openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
and move it to the default lighttpd place
mv server.pem /etc/lighttpd/
to finish installation just restart the lighttpd