lighty's life: PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz

jan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:37:00 +0000

Yeah, really.

Before you jump around and empty a barrel of beer, try to compile it first. :)

Download: http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz

Finally I got some time to finish the loose ends of 1.5.0. MySQL Network MAS is going to release (hopefully) next week, giving me time to work on lighty again.

What works and what doesn’t ?

mod_fastcgi, mod_cgi, mod_scgi, mod_proxy are removed
- mod_proxy_core is the replace for the above plugins
- you have to spawn fastcgi processes with spawn-fcgi
mod_cml is removed and mod_magnet isn’t included yet

Linux AIO

I blogged about Linux AIO before, now you can try it out. Install libaio and build lighttpd with—with-linux-aio.

server.network-backend = "linux-aio-sendfile"

mod-proxy-core

I checked that balancing and uploading works nicely work mod-proxy-core with fastcgi and http as protocols.

PHP

Start PHP with spawn-fcgi as documented in the manual and add

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.php$" {
  proxy-core.balancer = "round-robin" 
  proxy-core.protocol = "fastcgi" 
  proxy-core.backends = ( "127.0.0.1:1026" )
  proxy-core.max-pool-size = 16
}

the to config.

BTW: we use FCGI_KEEP_CONN to keep the connection between lighttpd and the FsatCGI backend up as long as possible.

HTTP (mongrel)

We use keep-alive and HTTP/1.1 by default. Give it a try.

$SERVER["socket"] == ":1445" {
  proxy-core.protocol = "http" 
#  proxy-core.balancer = "round-robin" 
  proxy-core.balancer = "sqf" 
  proxy-core.backends = (
    "10.0.0.10:80", 
    "10.0.0.11:80" )
}

sqf is Shortest Queue First and is the preferred balancer if you have backends which different CPUs. See the next blog-post.

mod-upload-progress

Works.

"PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz" by cyberty@gmail.com

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:31:44 +0000

Thank you for your great work. I have tried lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435, speed limit(connection.kbytes-per-second) is not working.

"PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz" by vladimir

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:04:37 +0000

Fedora Core 5: files altered with aio; index-file.names not taking into consideration for PHP handlers;

"PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz" by Eric

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:45:02 +0000

based on my testing, aio-sendfile is still broken. md5sum show file was changed during transfer from 1.5 with aio enabled

"PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz" by Vladimir

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:42:30 +0000

!!! Champagne is better... !!! Q: May I use Unix Socket for FCGI?

"PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.5.0-r1435.tar.gz" by JD

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:21:37 +0000

Much congratulations on getting this out the door! Compilation is complete, barrel of beer is being emptied...