I want to run a very light web server and therefore you need to do some manual configuration to make it work.
1. Install lighttpd.
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
2. Ensure that http://localhost works. You should get page like this:
3. Install smokeping
sudo apt-get install smokeping
4. Enable Lighttpd CGI module
sudo lighttpd-enable-mod cgi
5. Reload Lighttpd
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload
6. Ensure that this link brings up a semi-functional page
http://localhost/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi
Icons and graphs probably do not work.
6. Create a directory link in /var/www/ as smokeping to smokeping static page files:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/smokeping/www /var/www/smokeping
7. For some reason, lighttpd base directory is /var/www/html. This needs to be changed to /var/www (which I suspect other packages will be expecting).
Edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Change this line:
server.document-root = "/var/www/html"
to:
server.document-root = "/var/www"
8. Restart lighttpd and smokeping
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
sudo /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
Did you get this?
Update to enable fastcgi.
I don't know what fastcgi is, but compared to cgi is is fast.
On my laptop, it is 5 times faster!
1. Copy smokeping.fcgi.dist as smokeping.fcgi
sudo cp /var/www/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi.dist /var/www/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi
2. Edit smokeping.fcgi to point to your smokeping.cgi script
exec /usr/lib/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi /etc/smokeping/config
NOTE: my file had smokeping_cgi. This seems to be wrong and must be changed to smokeping.cgi
3. Modify /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf
Add this:
fastcgi.server += (
"smokeping.fcgi" => ((
"socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/fcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/usr/share/smokeping/www/smokeping.fcgi"
))
)
4. Enable Lighttpd FastCGI module
sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi
5. Reload Lighttpd
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload
http://localhost/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi
