[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#489063: lighttpd: unable to make lighttpd bind to localhost only

[Paul Wise]

Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.19-4
Severity: normal
Forwarded: http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/64647

I can't figure out how to make lighttpd listen on localhost/127.0.0.1/lo
only. I'm using it for web development stuff so this is desirable. A log
of what I tried is here and more info is in the last message (by Guest)
on the upstream forum.

root at chianamo:~# cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/pabs-localhost-only.conf
server.port = 80
server.bind = "localhost"
root at chianamo:~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
Starting web server: lighttpd
2008-07-03 13:15:56: (network.c.201) getaddrinfo failed:  No address associated with hostname ' localhost ' 
 failed!
root at chianamo:~# sed -i -e s/localhost/127.0.0.1/ /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/pabs-localhost-only.conf
root at chianamo:~# cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/pabs-localhost-only.conf
server.port = 80
server.bind = "127.0.0.1"
root at chianamo:~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
Starting web server: lighttpd
2008-07-03 13:16:38: (network.c.201) getaddrinfo failed:  Address family for hostname not supported ' 127.0.0.1 ' 
 failed!
root at chianamo:~# sed -i -e s/127.0.0.1/lo/ /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/pabs-localhost-only.conf
root at chianamo:~# cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/pabs-localhost-only.conf
server.port = 80
server.bind = "lo"
root at chianamo:~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
Starting web server: lighttpd
2008-07-03 13:17:01: (network.c.201) getaddrinfo failed:  No address associated with hostname ' lo ' 
 failed!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lighttpd depends on:
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.41-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-0.1         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfam0                2.7.0-13.3        Client library to control the FAM 
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.10-1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpcre3               7.6-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-10.1       SSL shared libraries
ii  libterm-readline-perl- 1.0302-1          Perl implementation of Readline li
ii  lsb-base               3.2-12            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mime-support           3.44-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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