Configure HTTP server: lighttpd

Requirements

lighttpd.
lighttpd's mod_fastcgi module. On several binary releases, this module may be distributed as a separate package.
FCGI, FastCGI interface for Perl.

Note

wwsympa.fcgi is wrapped in small setuid program written in C, wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi.

Setuid wrapper was introduced on Sympa 5.4 in order to avoid to use the --- insecure and no longer maintained --- setuid perl mode.

General instruction

If you have not added configuration for Sympa to lighttpd, add following excerpt (Note: replace $EXECCGIDIR, $CSSDIR, $PICTURESDIR and $STATICDIR):

server.modules += ("mod_fastcgi")
server.modules += ("mod_alias")

# Line below is needed for 6.2.28 or later.
alias.url += ( "/static-sympa/css/" => "$CSSDIR/" )
# Line below is needed for 6.2.28 or later.
alias.url += ( "/static-sympa/pictures/" => "$PICTURESDIR/" )
alias.url += ( "/static-sympa/" => "$STATICDIR/" )

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/sympa" {
fastcgi.server = ( "/sympa" =>
    ((    "check-local"    =>    "disable",
        "bin-path"    =>    "$EXECCGIDIR/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi",
        "socket"    =>    "/var/run/lighttpd/sympa.sock",
        "max-procs"    =>     2,
        "idle-timeout"    =>     20,
    ))
)
}

In above, /static-sympa/css, /static-sympa/pictures and /static-sympa are the default values of css_url, pictures_url and statoc_content_url, respectively.

Note
Some binary distributions ship configuration ready to edit:
On RPM, /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/sympa.conf file is prepared by sympa-lighttpd package. To add it to configuration, you might want to add a line at the bottom in lighttpd.conf:
include conf.d/sympa.conf

Edit it as you prefer.
Create a directory /var/run/lighttpd that is writable by lighttpd processes:
```
# mkdir /var/run/lighttpd
# chown lighttpd /var/run/lighttpd
```
Restart lighttpd.