lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-php\r\nlighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi\r\nservice lighttpd restart\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSome fixes<\/h2>\n
Once I’d got this far, most of my sites were working great, so I removed apache from the server so it wouldn’t conflict on reboot. However, moodle and dokuwiki weren’t working; they came up “site not found”. The reason was simple: these applications are not directly under the webroot, they exist elsewhere on the filesystem and apache serves them using an “alias” directive.<\/p>\n
The fix was also simple; in place of the alias (which, for example, directed the url “\/wiki” to “\/usr\/share\/dokuwiki”), I created a symlink under \/var\/www to the location of the application, like so:<\/p>\n
\r\nln -s \/usr\/share\/dokuwiki \/var\/www\/wiki\r\nln -s \/usr\/share\/moodle \/var\/www\/moodle\r\n<\/pre>\n…and so on for each application like that. Now, there may be some security issues here, but since this is a server exclusively available on my home LAN, that wasn’t a concern for me. \u00a0If you’re trying this on a public server, make sure you double-check the security concerns!<\/p>\n
One final tweak I did: I disabled http compression. \u00a0Compression is great for servers running on the web, \u00a0where bandwidth is likely to be a bottleneck. On a home LAN, we have bandwidth to spare, but the server itself needs to conserve CPU. \u00a0Shutting off compression made a significant speed increase on moodle, where each page hit loads in several files, and it was as easy as editing \/etc\/lighttpd\/lighttpd.conf and commenting out the line starting with “compress.filetype”.<\/p>\n
Results<\/h2>\n
So far things are pretty satisfactory with lighttpd — the server’s RAM usage has dropped significantly, and I believe we can now actually have more than one child using moodle at the same time \ud83d\ude42 ! \u00a0Have you had a good experience with Lighttpd? \u00a0Feel free to comment about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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