PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1605.tar.gz 15

Posted by jan Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:50:00 GMT

A lot of changes made it into the svn recently. It is time again to spread the code to more testers than just the few early adaptors who are using the svn-trunk/

Please try out the new stuff around async-io and dynamic compression of content. Even directory-listings are now automaticly compressed. Just load mod_deflate and set 
deflate.mimetypes = ( "text/html" )

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updated lighttpd-1.5.0-r1605.tar.gz

ChangeLog (r1605):

  • added check for leading slashes in mod_rewrite
  • improved async-io performance for files between 4k and 16k
  • fixed compression of static files in mod_deflate
  • fixed configure check for the library providing aio_read()
  • fixed moddirlisting, modstaticfile and the internal error-pages for mod_deflate
  • fixed compilation on FreeBSD and MacOS X
ChangeLog (r1593):
  • added O_NOATIME support to the network-backends linux-sendfile and writev
  • added a portable, threaded network-backend based on glib’s gthread
  • added threaded stat()
  • added url.redirect-code to mod_redirect to set other HTTP status-codes than 302
  • added filter-API and mod_chunked and mod_deflate for dynamic compression
  • added a static balancer for mod-proxy-core
  • added $HTTP[“request-method”] and $PHYSICAL[“path”] conditionals
  • fixed X-Sendfile support in mod-proxy-core
  • fixed crash if mtime is 0
  • added cmake as experimental build-system
  • fixed urls in AJP13-protocol of mod-proxy-core
  • added support for “now” and “weeks” to mod-expire
  • added mod-magnet
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  1. Scott MacVicar Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:29:52 GMT
    Running on our development servers now without any problem. Only change was adding mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi to the list of loaded modules. I've still got an issue with FastCGI not handling loading of the directory index document, in most cases index.php. Works fine if the URI explicitly contains the filename, possibly a configuration issue on our end.
  2. tibco Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:30:39 GMT
    for me, 1.can not show 404 error 2.can not list dir when I tried to do those, browser hung. curl show me 301 rolled back to 1524, problems gone.
  3. Frank Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:13:18 GMT
    mod_deflate doesnot work quite right. OS: Fedora Core 6 I see following in error logfile 2007-02-04 22:09:11: (/home/fang/build/build/lighttpd/src/mod_deflate.c.786) file was shrinked: /mnt/linux/WebDev/htdocs/misc/j11.html 2007-02-04 22:09:11: (/home/fang/build/build/lighttpd/src/mod_deflate.c.1002) compress file chunk failed. /home/fang/build/build/lighttpd/src/connections.c.1299: (trace) (error) /home/fang/build/build/lighttpd/src/connections.c.820: (error) I thought only WRITE_RESPONSE_* need fdevent-out
  4. Jan Kneschke Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:34:09 GMT
    frank, this is fixed in SVN now.
  5. Sam Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:28:25 GMT
    is there a switch to disable gthread? i need to compile this for uclibc.
  6. Jan Kneschke Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:22:12 GMT
    lighttpd compiles without gthread-2.0 (after adjusting the configure script), but not without glib-2.0. Linking against a static glib-2.0 should be all you need when you build for uclibc.
  7. David Weekly Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:33:00 GMT
    Neato! So glad to see this release coming together. I took a peek and didn't seem to see use of TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT to delay accept() processing until the first packet of data from the client arrives (performance boost!) or TCP_QUICKACK to disable the sending of an extra ack to the client request when the server header is soon to print (reduce packet transmission rate). Any plans for these?
  8. Sam Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:19:27 GMT
    hi, jan: i took the long path. compiled glib-2.0 together with uclibc. got past the gthread and glib checking. successful make. thanks much! i just tried starting in, but got error: can't resolve symbol '__ctype_b_loc'. got to investigate further....
  9. Sam Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:25:02 GMT
    my bad...the '__ctype_b_loc' error is due to wrong libc library.
  10. duck Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:49:39 GMT
    Compiles and work good. But doesn't pass index-files to fcgi.
  11. Sam Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:03:45 GMT
    Anyone has a working sample config file? i am a little confused at the new syntax. I am trying to turn on webdav, cgi and mod upload progress to test.
  12. Michael Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:24:06 GMT
    I can`t compile mod_geoip.c ! More errors after `make`. Pls, can you integrate this module in new release?
  13. Son Nguyen Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:46:39 GMT
    I looked at the benchmark post for async-io and it's amazing, look forward to 1.5 stable release. Thanks all developers & testers
  14. Imran Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:42:19 GMT
    I have built this on three different CentOS 4.4 systems with PCRE + LibAIO installed. The system builds fine, but it does not build mod_cgi. Has anyone else come across this issue ? I tried to see if I need to manually enale this, but I could not do so. Anyone know why this might be the case ? Note: my configure line is : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lighttpd15 --with-linux-aio
  15. Hank Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:14:12 GMT
    Can someone verify that setenv.add-environment works in the latest release? I'm using this and it does not pass the env variable to php. This is my basic config
    server.modules += ( "mod_proxy_core")
    server.modules += ( "mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi" )
    server.modules += ( "mod_setenv")
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "\.php$" {
    proxy-core.balancer = "round-robin"
    proxy-core.protocol = "fastcgi"
    proxy-core.check-local = "enable"
    proxy-core.backends = ( "unix:/tmp/php-fastcgi.sock" )
    setenv.add-environment = ("testenv" => "fooabcd")
    }
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