Lighttpd

Jannich Brendle on June 7th, 2010

To increase security a bit on my blog when using public networks such as those at libraries, I decided to create a self-signed certificate for the administration part of my wordpress installation, and I figured that I might as well write down the procedure here. Of course all of bredsaal.dk is secured by SSL, not [...]

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Jannich Brendle on November 9th, 2009

Some time ago, I needed to have several subdomains working, without having to define them in lighttpd. The domains had to be mapped like this: bredsaal.domain.com -> /var/www/domain.com/bredsaal/ testhomepage.domain.com -> /var/www/domain.com/testhomepage/ and so on. Setting this up in lighttpd is actually VERY easy. First, you should enable mod_evhost in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf by removing the # in [...]

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Jannich Brendle on August 26th, 2009

I needed to do some fuzzing experiments on a web browser, and decided that a shell script and a webserver was all I needed to do that. This is how to use shell scripts for cgi, this is not about the fuzzing proccess. First, I installed lighttpd and enabled the cgi module: sudo apt-get install [...]

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