• 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.git
  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://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2.git/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)
  You can additionally use the "nightlies" repository; our buildbot will update it after every git commit automatically (it may depend on packages from home:stbuehler:lighttpd2)
  • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stbuehler:/lighttpd2-nightlies/ (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Astbuehler%3Alighttpd2-nightlies)

Notes¶

• Although we sometimes use waf and cmake for developing, these buildsystems are currently not supported for building Lighty 2.0. We will bring back support for waf and cmake once we get near to a release. Use autotools (./configure and make) for now.