Lighttpd

Hi All,

I am a new user of lighty altough have used Apache2 to run an intranet site, probably an overkill. But my main server failed Hard drive failure (SCSI) so I am currently down while waiting for a replacement. I had an old PC that I used for checking server operations etc so I thought that I would try lighttpd.

OS Xubuntu 10.04 LTS version

Downloaded the latest version for the Ubuntu site version 1.4.26-1.
Installed OK and I could the place holder page.

Using the information in the www.linuxuser.co.uk magazine, I set up a couple of standard aliases. I copied my intranet site to the /var/www directory and tried to restart the lighty server
comp2@comp2:~$ lightreload
chown: changing ownership of `/var/run/lighttpd': Operation not permitted
comp2@comp2:~$

lightreload is equivalent to
alias lightreload='/etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload'

but as you can see I get a chown error. Therefore no change

I rebooted the system and still see the place holder not my index file.

As you can see, I failed at the first hurdle not good news.

I believe that this is a permission problem because I equally cannot see the log files (permission denied)

The log files as listed as being owned by www-data
@
comp2@comp2:/var/log$ ls -l
total 10168

rw-rw-r- 1 root utmp 295212 2010-10-11 17:49 lastlog
drwxr-x--- 2 www-data www-data 4096 2010-11-27 14:16 lighttpd
rw-r---- 1 syslog adm 0 2010-09-01 16:46 lpr.log
@

Best Wishes
Jim R