Hi,

I'm a bit out of my league here so I was wondering how I might go about this.. First, my goal: run 2 instances of lighttpd - one SSL and the other non-SSL.

I got instructions here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lig ... ghttpd_SSL

Only problem is that the instructions don't seem to work with Debian. Specifically:



rc.d and conf.d don't exist on my Debian system. Only rc.local, rc0.d, rc1.d, etc.. Is there a way to copy & manage all the K20lighttpd's in each of these directories or am I going to have to manually copy & edit every single one of them?

On Debian, startup scripts go into /etc/init.d. You can use update-rc.d to set up the symbolic links from /etc/rcN.d, e.g.

# update-rc.d lighttpd-ssl defaults

If you installed lighttpd using apt-get, there will already be one startup script installed. That script references a .conf file in /etc/lighttpd.

Roy

You don't need to run 2 instances of lighttpd for non-ssl/ssl. Setting up some checks on $SERVER["socket"] you can have one process do non-ssl and ssl.

Well look for notes on distro's resource site first, then look at the software's project page. The latter has all the details needed in this case:

http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3ASSL

Debian's wiki is unfortunately one of the poorest, they only have a generic section on web servers:

http://wiki.debian.org/WebServers

Which points to a Debian LUG site in the UK with very minimal details:

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/lighttpd.htm

Note that Ubuntu doesn't do much better either, it borrows from Gentoo's wiki:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lighttpd+PHP

Thanks guys.. I think I should be able to run 2 servers now.

The reason I have to run 2 separate servers is because I need to serve a secure subdomain on a non secure domain.



I am thick headed so I tried anyways. It didn't work because I host example.org, www.example.org AND secure.example.org .. secure.example.org is the only SSL one.

With both, socket & host declared, it just defaults to the example.org's document root.

Try this:

$HTTP["host"] == "chocco.org" {
        url.redirect = ( "^/.*" => "http://www.chocco.org/" )
}
$HTTP["host"] == "www.chocco.org" {
        server.document-root = "/srv/www.chocco.org"
}
$HTTP["host"] == "secure.chocco.org" {
        url.redirect = ( "^/.*" => "https://secure.chocco.org/" )
}
$SERVER["socket"] == "10.0.0.1:443" {
        ssl.engine = "enable"
        ssl.ca-file = "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certs.crt"
        ssl.pemfile = "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl.pem"

       $HTTP["host"] == "secure.chocco.org" {
               server.document-root = "/srv/secure.chocco.org"
       }
}