============ Installation ============ Quick Installation ------------------ Get lighttpd source from https://www.lighttpd.net/download/ unpack it by :: $ tar xvJf lighttpd-1.4.xx.tar.xz compile and install it with :: $ cd lighttpd-1.4.xx $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure -C $ make check $ /usr/bin/sudo make install take look at the configfile in ./doc/lighttpd.conf, make your own copy of that file and modify it for your needs. Online documentation -------------------- https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Devel https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/DevelSubversion https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/InstallFromSource Custom Installation ------------------- required packages :: autoconf automake libtool m4 pkg-config recommended additional packages :: pcre2 pcre2-devel lua lua-devel nettle nettle-devel optional packages for optional features :: bzip2-devel # bzip2 ./configure --with-bzip2 bzip2-libs cyrus-sasl # SASL ./configure --with-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel gnutls # GnuTLS ./configure --with-gnutls gnutls-devel krb5-devel # Kerberos5 ./configure --with-krb5 krb5-libs libbrotli # brotli ./configure --with-brotli brotli-devel libdbi # DBI ./configure --with-dbi libdbi-devel libdbi-dbd-mysql libdbi-dbd-pgsql libdbi-dbd-sqlite libdeflate # libdeflate ./configure --with-libdeflate libdeflate-devel libmaxminddb # MaxMindDB ./configure --with-maxminddb libmaxminddb-devel libpq # Postgresql ./configure --with-pgsql libpq-devel libunwind-devel # libunwind ./configure --with-libunwind libuuid # libuuid ./configure --with-webdav-locks libuuid-devel libxml2 # libxml2 ./configure --with-webdav-props libxml2-devel libxml2-static lua # Lua ./configure --with-lua lua-devel mariadb-devel # MariaDB ./configure --with-mysql mariadb-libs mbedtls # mbedTLS ./configure --with-mbedtls mbedtls-devel nettle # Nettle ./configure --with-nettle nettle-devel nss # NSS ./configure --with-nss nss-devel openldap # OpenLDAP ./configure --with-ldap openldap-devel openssl-devel # OpenSSL ./configure --with-openssl openssl-libs pam # PAM ./configure --with-pam pam-devel pcre # PCRE ./configure --with-pcre pcre-devel pcre2 # PCRE ./configure --with-pcre2 # (default) pcre2-devel sqlite # SQLite ./configure --with-webdav-props sqlite-devel valgrind # valgrind ./configure --with-valgrind valgrind-devel wolfssl # wolfSSL ./configure --with-wolfssl wolfssl-devel zlib # zlib ./configure --with-zlib # (default) zlib-devel libzstd # zstd ./configure --with-zstd libzstd-devel more options: ./configure --help re-run ./configure after installing packages compile and install it with :: $ cd lighttpd-1.4.xx $ ./autogen.sh # detect/use newer versions of autotools (if present) $ ./configure -C # add --with-xxxxx custom flags $ make # sudo make install Running Tests ------------- required packages to run test harness :: (e.g. on Fedora 22, sudo dnf install ...) (e.g. on Arch Linux, sudo pacman ... (with lowercased package names)) perl-Digest perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Encode-Locale perl-HTML-Entities-Interpolate perl-HTML-Parser perl-HTML-Tagset perl-HTTP-Date perl-HTTP-Message perl-IO-HTML perl-LWP-MediaTypes perl-Test-Harness perl-Test-Simple perl-Tie-Function perl-TimeDate run test harness $ make check static build using SCons ------------------------ $ scons -j 4 build_static=1 build_dynamic=0 prefix=/custom/inst/path install build_dynamic is enabled by default in SConstruct and needs to be disabled for the static build. See also the BoolVariable() settings in SConstruct for other configurable variables that might be set in a customized build. build_static=1 can be replaced with build_fullstatic=1 to perform lighttpd static build with modules *and* to link statically against external dependencies. static build using make ----------------------- * edit src/Makefile.am and, in the section under 'if LIGHTTPD_STATIC', update lighttpd_SOURCES with each module to be included in the static build * create src/plugin-static.h with list of modules as PLUGIN_INIT(mod_foo) for each module 'mod_foo' to be included in the static build $ LIGHTTPD_STATIC=yes ./configure -C --enable-static=yes $ make $ sudo make install build using CMake and Xcode on Mac OS X with MacPorts ----------------------------------------------------- * upgrade to latest Mac OS X * install Xcode from Apple Store (requires latest Mac OS X) * install MacPorts from https://www.macports.org/install.php $ xcodebuild --license $ xcode-select --install $ sudo port selfupdate $ sudo port install autoconf automake cmake libtool m4 pcre2 pkgconfig zlib zstd brotli openssl libxml sqlite3 openldap libunwind libunwind-headers mysql57 openldap ossp-uuid # Note: some of the above require more fiddling to configure with CMake... # cmake and build # (all -DWITH_... flags below are optional) $ cmake -Wno-dev -DWITH_PCRE2=1 -DWITH_OPENSSL=1 -DWITH_LUA=1 -DWITH_ZLIB=1 -DWITH_ZSTD=1 -DWITH_BROTLI=1 -DWITH_WEBDAV_PROPS=1 . $ make -j 4 $ make test