• Table of contents
• Install from source
  • Dependencies
  • Get Source
    • git checkout
    • distbuild
  • Configure + Build
  • Install
  • FreeBSD hints
• Install prebuild binaries
• Notes

Install from source¶

Dependencies¶

• c compiler :)
• pkg-config - best way to find many libs
• gnu make
• libev
• ragel
• glib2.0 (>= 2.16)
• lua 5.1 (highly recommended)
• zlib1g (for mod_deflate deflate/gzip compression)
• libbz2 (for mod_deflate bzip2 compression)
• libssl (for ssl)

Get Source¶

You can either checkout our git sources, or take a distbuild tar from http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-2.0.x/

git checkout¶

• First time: git clone git://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2
  This creates a new directory "lighttpd2" in your current directory with the sources in it.
  If you sit behind a strict firewall you can try git clone http://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2.git instead.
• Update: git pull
  If you applied own patches, you might want to use git fetch; git rebase origin/master to keep your patches or git fetch; git reset --hard origin/master to use our current head.

If you don't have git installed you can download a git snapshot from http://cgit.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2/commit/

• lighttpd2-master.zip
• lighttpd2-master.tar.gz
  It is the same as a git checkout (without the .git directory ofc) and counts as "git checkout" too here :)
  This tars are not the same as a distbuild tar!

As you probably want to use autotools to build and install lighttpd2 you need to generate some extra files:

./autogen.sh

This last step needs some additional dependencies (the versions are a hint to what we are using; they are probably not required in the exact same version)

• libtool (2.2.6b)
• automake (1.11)
• autoconf (2.67)

distbuild¶

Download it and extract it as always: tar -xf http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-2.0.x/lighttpd-2.0.0-snap-XXX.tar.gz

Configure + Build¶

If you are not familiar with configure, have a look at the help:

./configure --help

Example:

./configure --with-lua --with-openssl --with-kerberos5 --with-zlib --with-bzip2 --includedir=/usr/include/lighttpd-2.0.0
make

Install¶

make install

FreeBSD hints¶

• Use gmake instead of make
• In order to get configure finding libev, you either need this as /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/libev.pc :
  

  prefix=/usr/local
  exec_prefix=${prefix}
  libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
  includedir=${prefix}/include
  
  Name: libev
  Description: high-performance event loop
  Version: 3.9
  Libs: -L${libdir} -lev
  Cflags: -I${includedir}
  

  
  or use CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" ./configure ...

Install prebuild binaries¶

You may want to have a look at the opensuse build service repositories, we have packages available for:

• CentOS 5
• Debian 5.0
• Fedora 13
• Redhat RHEL 5
• openSUSE 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and Factory
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
• Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic), 10.04 (lucid)

They are hosted either in the server:http or home:stbuehler:lighttpd2 projects:

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/http/ (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=server%3Ahttp)
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stbuehler:/lighttpd2/ (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Astbuehler%3Alighttpd2)

Notes¶

• Although we sometimes use waf and cmake for developing, these buildsystems are not supported (especially are they not usable for make install)