Lighttpd

Hi Team,

The lighttpd is not picking the updated server.username and server.groupname from lighttpd.conf file.

Below is my lighttpd.conf file content¶

ubuntu@ubuntu-j100:~$ cat /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

server.modules = (
        "mod_access",
        "mod_alias",
        "mod_compress",
        "mod_redirect",
)

server.document-root        = "/var/www/html" 
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" 
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid" 
server.username             = "bkvn" 
server.groupname            = "bkvn" 
server.port                 = 80

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/create-mime.assign.pl" 
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl" 

User info in linux box¶

@ubuntu@ubuntu-j100:~$ cat /etc/passwd

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
bkvn:x:1001:1001::/home/bkvn:/bin/sh@

lighttpd script execution procedure¶

From the root user I am executing the conf file as shown below
/usr/sbin/lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Current Result¶

ps -aef | grep lighttpd
root 1292 1 0 07:08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd_webgui.conf
root 4360 4347 0 10:38 pts/0 00:00:00 grep lighttpd

Unable to understand why the process is running as root instead of mentioned user in the conf file.

Expected Result¶

I expected the lighttpd process should executed with user "bkvn" (as per lighttpd.conf file) and the process has started with "root" user.

Do any one know what could be the reason for the above issue?