Lighttpd

= Using Request Tracker with lighttpd (via FastCGI, using Mason) =

[http://bestpractical.com/rt/ Best Practical Solutions' Request Tracker] (RT), an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users, can be used with Lighttpd.

Setting up RT3 is somewhat similar to [wiki:MasonRecipe using Mason with Lighttpd and FastCGI], apart from some minor configuration differences.

Setting up RT on Lighttpd requires the following: * Satisfy all Perl dependencies for RT * Mason handles the files ending with '/' or '.html' or '.css' or '.js'. * Mason handles 'mail-gateway', required for the RT mail gateway * Mason handles 'Search/Chart', required for charting search results * Other files statically served by Lighttpd * Required Perl modules load when the FastCGI process starts * Disallow access to .mhtml files

This document assumes you install your Request Tracker in /opt/rt3/

First we need a Mason handler, which is a patched version of the handler that comes with the RT installation. Lighttpd will use this handler via FastCGI. In my setup the handler is called mason_lighttpd_handler.fcgi, the handler does not need to be in any particular location.

{{{
#!perl
#!/usr/bin/perl

1. BEGIN BPS TAGGED BLOCK {{{
3. COPYRIGHT:
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6. <jesse@bestpractical.com>
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28. CONTRIBUTION SUBMISSION POLICY:
30. (The following paragraph is not intended to limit the rights granted
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36. By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
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38. Request Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that
39. you are the copyright holder for those contributions and you grant
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45. END BPS TAGGED BLOCK }}}
    package RT::Mason;

use strict;
use vars '$Handler';
use File::Basename;
require ('/opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl');

1. Enter CGI::Fast mode, which should also work as a vanilla CGI script.
   require CGI::Fast;

my $h;

RT::Init();

while ( my $cgi = CGI::Fast->new ) { # the whole point of fastcgi requires the env to get reset here.. # So we must squash it again
$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';
$ENV{'CDPATH'} = '' if defined $ENV{'CDPATH'};
$ENV{'SHELL'} = '/bin/sh' if defined $ENV{'SHELL'};
$ENV{'ENV'} = '' if defined $ENV{'ENV'};
$ENV{'IFS'} = '' if defined $ENV{'IFS'};

my $uri = $ENV{REQUEST_URI};
    if ($uri =~ /\?/) {
      $uri =~ /^(.*?)\?(.*)/;
      $ENV{PATH_INFO} = $1;
      $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = $2;
    } else {
      $ENV{PATH_INFO} = $uri;
      $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = "";
    }

Module::Refresh->refresh if $RT::DevelMode;
    RT::ConnectToDatabase();

if ( ( !$Handler->interp->comp_exists( $cgi->path_info ) )
        && ( $Handler->interp->comp_exists( $cgi->path_info . "/index.html" ) ) ) {
        $cgi->path_info( $cgi->path_info . "/index.html" );
    }

eval { $Handler->handle_cgi_object($cgi); };
    if ($) {
        $RT::Logger->crit($);
    }
    RT::Interface::Web::Handler->CleanupRequest();

}

1;
}}}

Now we set up the host that we'll use for our RT installation, telling Lighttpd to pass all necessary requests to the site through FastCGI.

{{{
#!python
$HTTP["host"] =~ "site1\.example\.com" { # Specify the documentroot
server.document-root = "/opt/rt3/share/html"

1. Map appropriate files and extensions
   fastcgi.map-extensions = ( ".css" => ".html", ".js" => ".html", "/" => ".html", "mail-gateway" => ".html", "Search/Chart" => ".html")

1. Set Lighttpd to check for an index.html file for each directory
   index-file.names = ( "index.html" )

1. Disallow access to .mhtml files
   url.access-deny = ( ".mhtml" )

setenv.add-environment = (
       "SCRIPT_NAME" => "/",
  )

1. Set up an alias for the /NoAuth/images location
   url.rewrite-once = (
   "^/(?!NoAuth/images/)(.*)" => "/$1",
   )

1. Set up FastCGI handler
   fastcgi.server = ( ".html" =>
   ((
   "socket" => "/tmp/rt-fcgi.socket",
   "bin-path" => "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_lighttpd_handler.fcgi",
   "check-local" => "disable",
   "min-procs" => 2,
   "max-procs" => 2
   ))
   )
   }
   }}}

That's it!

The above Lighttpd configuration will start two instances of the Mason handler script, passing requests to them as appropriate.

= Credits =

Justin Hawkins <justin@hawkins.id.au> for the initial [wiki:MasonRecipe Using Mason with Lighttpd (via FastCGI)] write-up.