Re: lighttpd in openbsd - cant find devnull

On 8/24/24 04:31, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024/08/23 22:04, David Colburn wrote:
>> On 8/21/24 14:25, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>>> On 2024/08/21 14:02, David Colburn wrote:
>>>> "$ cat /var/www/dev/null"
>>>>
>>>> Returns to the prompt.
>>>>
>>>> Here's this ...
>>>>
>>>> b7# rcctl -d start lighttpd
>>>> doing _rc_parse_conf
>>>> lighttpd_flags empty, using default >-f /etc/lighttpd.conf<
>>>> doing rc_check
>>>> lighttpd
>>>> doing rc_start
>>>> doing _rc_wait_for_start
>>>> doing rc_check
>>>> 2024-08-21 13:59:01:
>>>> (/usr/obj/ports/lighttpd-1.4.74-mysql/lighttpd-1.4.74/src/configfile.c.1840)
>>>> opening errorlog 'logs/error.log' failed: Permission denied
>>> Well that is failing on writing /var/www/logs/error.log
>>
>> I just checked and the permissions for
>>
>> /var/www/logs/error.log
>>
>> are 644 converted from "-rw-r--r--" (if I'm reading things correctly).
>>
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> Owner and Group are "www www" - is that correct?
>>
> That depends on what user you have got lighttpd running as.
> If it's the default, _lighttpd, then that yser needs to be able
> to write to the log file that lighttpd is configured to use.
>
> Seems the port docs, or perhaps defaults, could do with some
> tweaks as there are definitely some things which are not obvious
> (/dev/null and not mounting nodev) and are a bit hard to figure
> out unless you know OpenBSD. But you might want to pick a
> different web server if you're needing help with file
> permissions etc as there's a lot more documentation you can
> find online for e.g. nginx or apache httpd than lighttpd.
>
I looked at all three and chose lighttpd for a variety of reasons that

I won't go into atm.

If you're saying that lighttpd isn't ready to deploy in OpenBSD then I
guess

I'll have to look at one of the other two - which would be unfortunate.

If you're saying that with a few adjustments lighttpd can be made to work

with OpenBSD (as well as it does with Linux) then I'm fine with a
learning curve.

Despite various quirks (and missing drivers) I've been primarily using
Linux for

over 20 years - rather than Apple or MS.

(I also have Graphene on my Pixel phone vs google/alphabet's Android.)

Thanks.