Comments on: darcsweb+lighttpd on Debian

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:10:23 +0000

For really thick people like me:

After you’re done: sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

Point your web browser to: http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi

By: Preben

Preben — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:40:45 +0000

Got it :-)

I had to write:

$HTTP["remoteip"] == "127.0.0.1" {
  alias.url += ("/darcsweb/" =>
    "/usr/share/darcsweb/")
  $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/darcsweb/" {
    dir-listing.activate = "disable"
  }
}

to get the alias to work. It didn't work with only the alias.url line. I guess you can skip the $HTTP["url"] line though.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:10:15 +0000

Preben, my guess is that your configuration doesn't have /darcsweb/ pointing to the place where the images and CSS are. The recipe above worked on a Debian system when I wrote it. It's likely that locations of files differ between distributions. They might even have changed on Debian, I wouldn't know since I no longer run a system with darcsweb+lighttpd on it.

By: Preben

Preben — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:16:37 +0000

Hi again

I'm trying to setup my lighttpd like you have done above, but I cannot manage to get the style.css and logos loaded. The darcsweb looks just boring old text.

Any ideas what is the problem?

Thanks in advance

Preben

By: Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:26:02 +0000

Preben,

Another comment on the issue of using FastCGI. AFAIU FastCGI offers most of its speed-up by removing the need to create a new process everytime a page is accessed. This pays off very quickly when using interpreted languages to implement your dynamic site.

Darcsweb is written in Python, but it relies heavily on darcs itself to deal with your repo. That means the potenital for speed-up is rather reduced.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:41:23 +0000

Adam,

No issue at all for me. The configuration provided with lighttp on Debian works like a charm.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:59:16 +0000

Preben,

AFAIU fastcgi requires support by darcsweb, right? At the moment it's written as a regular CGI script so cgi seems to be the only option.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:11:41 +0000

did you have no issue with doing python cgi in lighttpd? thats where im stuck

By: Preben

Preben — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:27:23 +0000

Just wondered why you don't use fastcgi in stead of cgi?

Preben