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Installation
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Quick Installation
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Get lighttpd source from

https://www.lighttpd.net/download/

unpack it by ::

  $ tar xvJf lighttpd-1.4.xx.tar.xz

compile and install it with ::

  $ cd lighttpd-1.4.xx
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure -C
  $ make check
  $ /usr/bin/sudo make install

take look at the configfile in ./doc/lighttpd.conf,
make your own copy of that file and modify it for your needs.


Online documentation
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https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Devel
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/DevelSubversion
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/InstallFromSource


Custom Installation
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required packages ::

  autoconf
  automake
  libtool
  m4
  pkg-config

recommended additional packages ::

  pcre2
  pcre2-devel
  lua
  lua-devel
  nettle
  nettle-devel

optional packages for optional features ::

  bzip2-devel         # bzip2      ./configure --with-bzip2
  bzip2-libs
  cyrus-sasl          # SASL       ./configure --with-sasl
  cyrus-sasl-devel
  gnutls              # GnuTLS     ./configure --with-gnutls
  gnutls-devel
  krb5-devel          # Kerberos5  ./configure --with-krb5
  krb5-libs
  libbrotli           # brotli     ./configure --with-brotli
  brotli-devel
  libdbi              # DBI        ./configure --with-dbi
  libdbi-devel
  libdbi-dbd-mysql
  libdbi-dbd-pgsql
  libdbi-dbd-sqlite
  libdeflate          # libdeflate ./configure --with-libdeflate
  libdeflate-devel
  libmaxminddb        # MaxMindDB  ./configure --with-maxminddb
  libmaxminddb-devel
  libpq               # Postgresql ./configure --with-pgsql
  libpq-devel
  libunwind-devel     # libunwind  ./configure --with-libunwind
  libxml2             # libxml2    ./configure --with-webdav-props
  libxml2-devel
  libxml2-static
  lua                 # Lua        ./configure --with-lua
  lua-devel
  mariadb-devel       # MariaDB    ./configure --with-mysql
  mariadb-libs
  mbedtls             # mbedTLS    ./configure --with-mbedtls
  mbedtls-devel
  nettle              # Nettle     ./configure --with-nettle
  nettle-devel
  nss                 # NSS        ./configure --with-nss
  nss-devel
  openldap            # OpenLDAP   ./configure --with-ldap
  openldap-devel
  openssl-devel       # OpenSSL    ./configure --with-openssl
  openssl-libs
  pam                 # PAM        ./configure --with-pam
  pam-devel
  pcre                # PCRE       ./configure --with-pcre
  pcre-devel
  pcre2               # PCRE       ./configure --with-pcre2     # (default)
  pcre2-devel
  sqlite              # SQLite     ./configure --with-webdav-props
  sqlite-devel
  valgrind            # valgrind   ./configure --with-valgrind
  valgrind-devel
  wolfssl             # wolfSSL    ./configure --with-wolfssl
  wolfssl-devel
  zlib                # zlib       ./configure --with-zlib      # (default)
  zlib-devel
  libzstd             # zstd       ./configure --with-zstd
  libzstd-devel

more options: ./configure --help

re-run ./configure after installing packages

compile and install it with ::

  $ cd lighttpd-1.4.xx
  $ ./autogen.sh        # detect/use newer versions of autotools (if present)
  $ ./configure -C      # add --with-xxxxx custom flags
  $ make
  # sudo make install


Running Tests
-------------

required packages to run test harness ::

  (e.g. on Fedora 22, sudo dnf install ...)
  (e.g. on Arch Linux, sudo pacman ... (with lowercased package names))

  perl-Digest
  perl-Digest-MD5
  perl-Encode-Locale
  perl-HTML-Entities-Interpolate
  perl-HTML-Parser
  perl-HTML-Tagset
  perl-HTTP-Date
  perl-HTTP-Message
  perl-IO-HTML
  perl-LWP-MediaTypes
  perl-Test-Harness
  perl-Test-Simple
  perl-Tie-Function
  perl-TimeDate

run test harness

  $ make check


static build using SCons
------------------------

  $ scons -j 4 build_static=1 build_dynamic=0 prefix=/custom/inst/path install

build_dynamic is enabled by default in SConstruct and needs to be disabled for
the static build.  See also the BoolVariable() settings in SConstruct for other
configurable variables that might be set in a customized build.  build_static=1
can be replaced with build_fullstatic=1 to perform lighttpd static build with
modules *and* to link statically against external dependencies.


static build using make
-----------------------

* edit src/Makefile.am and, in the section under 'if LIGHTTPD_STATIC',
  update lighttpd_SOURCES with each module to be included in the static build
* create src/plugin-static.h with list of modules as PLUGIN_INIT(mod_foo)
  for each module 'mod_foo' to be included in the static build

  $ LIGHTTPD_STATIC=yes ./configure -C --enable-static=yes
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

build using CMake and Xcode on Mac OS X with MacPorts
-----------------------------------------------------
* upgrade to latest Mac OS X
* install Xcode from Apple Store (requires latest Mac OS X)
* install MacPorts from https://www.macports.org/install.php

  $ xcodebuild --license
  $ xcode-select --install
  $ sudo port selfupdate
  $ sudo port install autoconf automake cmake libtool m4 pcre2 pkgconfig zlib zstd brotli openssl libxml sqlite3 openldap libunwind libunwind-headers mysql57 openldap
  # Note: some of the above require more fiddling to configure with CMake...

  # cmake and build
  # (all -DWITH_... flags below are optional)
  $ cmake -Wno-dev -DWITH_PCRE2=1 -DWITH_OPENSSL=1 -DWITH_LUA=1 -DWITH_ZLIB=1 -DWITH_ZSTD=1 -DWITH_BROTLI=1 -DWITH_WEBDAV_PROPS=1 .
  $ make -j 4
  $ make test
