Lighty Web Server - lighttpd on your Pre

[PreRunr]

Thanks for the tip. I see that there are a few well known homebrew apps located there. I also note that the Preware-installed lighttpd and upstartmgr have put scripts at /etc/event.d Which location is used by the upstart manager gui (which still says its broken after re-install and waiting for something to happen)?

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by PreRunr

Thanks for the tip. I see that there are a few well known homebrew apps located there. I also note that the Preware-installed lighttpd and upstartmgr have put scripts at /etc/event.d Which location is used by the upstart manager gui (which still says its broken after re-install and waiting for something to happen)?

Any homebrew upstart scripts in /etc/event.d will be migrating to /var/palm/event.d in the near future. The upstart manager gui (which may or may not work, I haven't looked at it since 2.0) should see both.

-- Rod

[PreRunr]

I used a file that contains
================================
description "MYSQL Server"

start on stopped finish
stop on runlevel [!2]

console none

# Make sure web sessions don't slow down GUI use
nice 5

# Restart the web server if it exits/dies
respawn

script
/opt/etc/init.d/S70mysqld start
end script

# end of file
===================
I copied the basic features from /etc/event.d/mobi.optware.lighttpd and I am happy that MySQL now starts automatically but I cant stop it easily without putty (ssh2).
But the upstartmanager GUI is busted according to cryptk so at his request I am having a go with it on the TP emulator.

[PreRunr]

Having tested the upstartmanager gui on Pre2 and TP emulator. I conclude its Rod's upstartmgr that is not working.
The error message from his code is reported in the log as ---
org.webosinternals.upstartmanager Error: Error: service request: Not permitted to send to org.webosinternals.upstartmgr
This is confirmed when I send this luna-send in putty.
luna-send -n 1 palm://org.webosinternals.upstartmgr/list {}
{"returnValue":false,"errorCode":-1,"errorText":"Not permitted to send to org.webosinternals.upstartmgr."}

(process:14491): LunaService-CRITICAL **: AppId msg type: 17

So I conclude the upstartmgr is not running so the gui or luna-send will not work. Using initctl list I get the message its stopped --
(00822/827177734) org.webosinternals.upstartmgr (stop) waiting

but when I start it in putty using
/var/usr/sbin/org.webosinternals.upstartmgr
I get -----
(process:20231): LunaService-CRITICAL **: Error in /home/reviewdaemon/projects/nova/oe/BUILD-roadrunner/work/luna-service2-2.0.0-125/125/src/transport.c:2359

(process:20231): LunaService-CRITICAL **: Invalid permissions for org.webosinternals.upstartmgr
LUNASERVICE ERROR -1027: Invalid permissions for org.webosinternals.upstartmgr (_LSTransportRequestNameLocal @ /home/reviewdaemon/projects/nova/oe/BUILD-roadrunner/work/luna-service2-2.0.0-125/125/src/transport.c:2359)

Not sure how to move from here.

[polska03]

Hello I can't find a tutorial on this anywhere. You know how you guys are talking about accessing thigns like /etc or pre, how do you do this? I am a complete newbie at modifying the touchpad. I want to install a web server to run on the touchpad, so I installed one from preware, nginex, and then went to my broswer typed in localhost you can tell the server is running because it didnt say couldnt load page, but the index.html file did not load, it was just a plain white page that gets loaded.Can someone please in idiot proof terminology explain how I do this. I also downloaded some optware things from preware like password generator, but have no clue how to access it.
CHeers

[PreRunr]

Uninstall nginex and install lighttpd instead. It does work.

[polska03]

I tried doing that,removed nginex andinstalled lighttpd but it did not work, i still just got a blank white page. Please help!

[PreRunr]

Check if its actually running, in a terminal use top with option A should show it. If not start it with "/opt/etc/init.d/S80lighttpd start", note remove the quotes.
Configure Lighttpd by editing lighttpd.conf in /opt/etc/lighttpd by typing "cd /opt/etc/lighttpd" and edit lighttpd.conf with your preferred editor (if you use nano, try to invoke it with "nano -w filename" so that long lines are not wrapped).
This is my conf file.

[polska03]

See I am totally new at this. How do you open a terminal to check this? All I did was install preware and went to optware-->lightttpd and pressed install. Thanks for replying though!!

[polska03]

Okay I think I found how to get the terminal. I insallted webos quick install on my windows computer than went to the linux commnand line and can access the touchpad. So I ran those lines and they did not work. I went to the /opt/etc/ dir and there is a a dir called lighttpd so I cd'd into that and there are two files conf.d and lighttpd.conf, so I vi the lighttpd.conf and noticed that it runs in /var/run/lighttpd.pid, so I went to that directory and lighttpd.pid was not there? I also tried start mobi.optware.lighttpd, but it says job unknown

[PreRunr]

Great you found a terminal method, WOSQI is a safe method. Rather than use vi, the ancient linux/unix editor from the the 70's, install nano via preware. Then edit the conf file, check my options I posted above based on Rod Whitby's selection. It does work on my Pre 2, Pre 3 and Touchpad, slowly you will pick these things up, its not so bad. Once you get your web server going I note that, I can run a XAMPP or LLMP system just fine ported across from a PC system. At present I have a php script to stop and start mysql, but I am trying to use a another method with node.js to do it another way. Lightppd starts when I do a boot up, I assume you have done a reboot :-)

[scoinva]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

Edit /etc/event.d/mobi.optware.lighttpd

(That's for Pixi users too)

-- Rod

/opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

[dogpig00]

can someone educate me on what I need to do to get php files to work with lighttpd? I have lighttpd running and I can see all my files in BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com, but if I want to open any php files, I get error 403 forbidden.

[PreRunr]

My guess is that you need to instal php first. If you want to go for a LLMP setup keep the mysql and phpmyadmin bits.
(1) Install lightppd via PREWARE
(2) ipkg-opt update
(3) ipkg-opt install lighttpd php fcgi php-fcgi php-pear mysql phpmyadmin
Configuration file '/opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions (if diff is installed)
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** lighttpd.conf (Y/I/N/O/D) [default=N] ?N

remove using
ipkg-opt remove mysql php php-mysql )

[dz2k]

Originally Posted by PreRunr

My guess is that you need to instal php first. If you want to go for a LLMP setup keep the mysql and phpmyadmin bits.
(1) Install lightppd via PREWARE
(2) ipkg-opt update
(3) ipkg-opt install lighttpd php fcgi php-fcgi php-pear mysql phpmyadmin
Configuration file '/opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions (if diff is installed)
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** lighttpd.conf (Y/I/N/O/D) [default=N] ?N

remove using
ipkg-opt remove mysql php php-mysql )

awesome information given here. thanks.