Lighttpd 1.4.10 for Windows now available

This is a known issue: PHP with FastCGI on Windows doesn’t work.

YAY!!!! Cheers Kevin.Downloading now so will try webDAV and report back.
Guy

I just tried installing this for the first time on my Windows 2000 PC and I go through the install. If I let it start the server from the install I get a console window and then my CPU goes 100% and I can’t kill the process. After shutdown if I try to use the shortcuts for start and stop then nothing happens. The webserver however seems to start fine if I run it from the command-line with -D -f ..etc… options. If i don’t let the install run it, then install completes and I still can’t start the webserver. The log files are empty too.
Please advise.
Gena01

I just tried it on a Windows 2000 machine, and you are correct, it does not run from the installer. However, it should run fine from the start menu or from the desktop icons or quick launch icons. Please let me know if it does not.

Kevin,
Using this addition to the .conf file:
$HTTP["url"] =~ “^/store($|/)” {
webdav.activate = “enable”
auth.backend = “plain”
auth.backend.plain.userfile = “C:/lighttpdetc/lighttpd.user”
}
And loading mod_auth to carry out authetication I get :
[Guy Robinson] C:lighttpdsbin$ lighttpd.exe -f ..etclighttpd.conf
006-02-10 12:10:00: (plugin.c.165) dlopen() failed for: C:/lighttpd/lib/mod_aut
.dll No such file or directory
006-02-10 12:10:00: (server.c.583) loading plugins finally failed
Even if I add c:lighttpdlib to the path I still get this error. Any ideas?

Gena01: it sounds cliche, but did you try rebooting? Try uninstalling lighttpd and then installing it again?
Guy: that’s strange because I can definitely see mod_auth.dll in my lib directory. mod_webdav does not appear there though. I’ll investigate.

Kev: I did reboot. And same thing. It has something to do when it tries to go into background, because I can run it just fine using -D option.
The service stuff is a bit wacky. There’s registration in the registry. Then it executes the program with specific command-line parameters for start/stop. I remember seeing how it was done a while back. I might need to search for that code.

Gena01: I was just looking that reference up. It’s the best description I’ve seen that doesn’t seem to believe you’re using VisualStudio.
Kev: Do you have a diff file available with your changes? (or source zip)
if you’re trying to do the instsrv/srvany route (like seems to be included in the installation) you also need to add registry keys.
Assuming “C:lighttpd” as the installation directory (as came default) and the service.bat file this would be the minimal additions
—
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesLighttpdServerParameters]
“Application”=”C:\lighttpd\sbin\lighttpd.exe”
“AppParameters”=”-f ../etc/lighttpd.conf”
“AppDirectory”=”C:\lighttpd\sbin\”
—
Old but still good instructions
How To Create a User-Defined Service
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q137890/
It seems the srvany.wri file is no longer included in the 2003 resource kit (which is where you’d normally find out about the option AppParameter and AppDirectory entries) but the microsoft ftp site still has the nt4 reskit which includes it.

Fabricio: Currently, it will only install to the root of C: beacause many of my batch files to point to absolute paths, explicitly.
Gena01: If it works fine with the -D option, simply edit C:lighttpdsbinstart-lighttpd.bat and add it in.
LJones: I do not have any modified source. I use the source from lighttpd.net in all of my builds. The only thing I do is compile it in a Cygwin (Windows) environment, add a few batch files and icons, and package it up. Also, when I tried making it a service, I did modify registry keys, following documents on microsoft’s website and in forum posts at forum.lighttpd.net/forum/1 but it didn’t work out for me. I will try your method soon when I have more time, but I have to ask – are those double backslashes actually the way to add the paths in the registry, or were you just trying to escape them for this post?

Gena01: If you start it from a prompt without the -D does it spit out any information?

Gena01: Do you have another computer that you can try lighttpd on, by any chance? (I can not reproduce this problem here.)

mmmm.. you gave me an idea of what might be wrong. I had cygwin installed before.. So i went and removed some cygwin registry entries and now it’s working.

I posted this yesterday but am not seeing it.
The double backslashes are from a cut and paste regedit export. *.reg files must have backslashes escaped. When you enter the values directly into the registry (via regedit or similar) then you do not need to escape the backslash. You should be able to copy/paste the section between the — into a “service.reg” file and run it after your service.bat and have lighty running as a service. lt seems to be working on 2 test machines here (winxp and win2k).
If you add the path via the services console you may need to escape the backslash but that depends on the windows version.
I’d asked for source diff since you wrote “besides the normal upstream changes” which (to me) implied something was added in. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I enable ssi by adding the following in lightpd.txt file:
server.modules = (
… “mod_ssi”,…
}
ssi.extension = ( “.shtml” )
Now I added “” to a shtml file, however it doesn’t seem to work.
Am I missing something here…
Thanks

It looks like many of the modules that work on a *nix machine do not work on Windows. When I started this project to get a Cygwin-less build, I was shooting for basic functionality and didn’t expect so many people to be interested and use the Windows build. If anybody wants to help out and make everything work on Windows, please let me know.

I’m not getting any compiler errors. Sometimes the modules simply do not build (without error) or it appears that it was built, but simply doesn’t work. It’s a weird situation.

I’m having troubles running this 16bit intaller on my Windows XP. is there a 32bit virsion of the build/intaller of lighttpD ?

It is 32 bit as far as I know. I’ve installed it on XP and 2000…

I was unable to download lighttpd because “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”. Maybe you want to consider moving to a propper host for the binary, the one that doesn’t impose low bandwidth limits, like Sourceforge.net.

no problem, thank you for mirroring it now ;)

For those of you wishing to install it whereever you want instead of C:/lighttpd, read http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/197#566

i have installed the latest release (1.4.10) and tryed to get php to work, but when i try to load a php page it says :”403 – Forbidden” my config file is like this:
“mod_cgi”,
and
cgi.assign = ( “.php” => “c:/php/php-cgi.exe” )
my php version is 5.1.2
windows version: xp prof

Kristiaan: near the top of lighttpd.conf, you must uncomment mod_cgi, by deleting the # at the beginning of the line.
Xiaogang: look a few comments up, I posted a mirror link.

Kristiaan: please email me your conf file (kworthington at gmail dot com) and I’ll take a look.

Try looking for cygwin1.dll on your system. The cygwin1.dll that I supplied might be conflicting with another version on your system.

I am having an http post issue with lighttpd running on Windows. It is looking for the /var/tmp/some_up_file_name but there is no such thing as /var/tmp in Windows (this only applies to files bigger than 64KB)…how do I work around this?
Do I need to cross compile? If so, what is the best way for me to do this under Windows (since I need Windows binaries)?
Thanks a million guys.

Kev: I found it in chunk.c (line 265)
How did you do the compile for Windows? Did you use cygwin? If you did which glibc, gcc, binutils, etc did you use and how did you set it up?
:)

Kevin,
I am trying to install 1.4.10 for windows but I can’t get the actual install. Where can I dwonload it for windows?
thnx.

Kevin: Was there anything special you had to do to compile lighttpd?
Thanks.

Sami: I am going to put together a HOWTO for building lighttpd on Windows very soon. The best hint I can give you for now is to install everything that Cygwin offers; then configure lighttpd with –prefix=C:/lighttpd (note that it’s two dashes; prefix; equals; [the path], using a forward (unix-like) slash).
Kristiaan: I’m glad you got it resolved.