[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#763618: lighttpd: Confusing CGI information on default start page

Dallas E. Legan II aw585 at lafn.org
Wed Oct 1 12:11:15 UTC 2014


Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.31-4+deb7u3
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Apologies if I'm simply confused or not understanding
how things are done with lighttpd and there really is nothing to correct.

The start page clearly states that after running

#lighty-enable-mod cgi

CGI scripts are looked for in directory

/usr/lib/cgi-bin/

but after looking at error reports after activating debug,
and from what actually works, they are looked for in directory

/var/www/cgi-bin/

This wasted some hours of my time, and maybe other peoples.

It seems like the default start page should be corrected
(updated?).



Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / legan at acm.org / aw585 at lafn.org
http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lighttpd depends on:
ii  libattr1                    1:2.4.46-8
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.6-4
ii  libc6                       2.17-93
ii  libfam0                     2.7.0-17
ii  libldap-2.4-2               2.4.31-1+nmu2
ii  libpcre3                    1:8.30-5
ii  libssl1.0.0                 1.0.1e-2+deb7u11
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl  1.0303-1
ii  lsb-base                    4.1+Debian12
ii  mime-support                3.52-1
ii  perl                        5.14.2-21+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages lighttpd recommends:
ii  spawn-fcgi  1.6.3-1

Versions of packages lighttpd suggests:
pn  apache2-utils  <none>
ii  openssl        1.0.1e-2+deb7u6
pn  rrdtool        <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf changed:
server.modules = (
	"mod_access",
	"mod_alias",
	"mod_compress",
 	"mod_redirect",
)
server.document-root        = "/var/www"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80
debug.log-request-handling = "enable"
index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype           = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"


-- no debconf information



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