The source distribution of Lighttpd does not include a startup script (and if you want something lightweight building from source is the only way to go). I found a Linux init script in the RPM distribution from the Dag repository. You can install the latest RPM from the repository or just pick up the init script below.
With most Linux distributions it can be placed in /etc/init.d/ along with all of the other init scripts.
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On hosts with safe_mode turned on, it can be difficult to get remote files with a system call to wget or curl. Here is a PHP function that will get a file with an HTTP GET. I use it to download remote images. It returns the binary data in a variable that can be written to a file.
$url_stuff = parse_url($url);
$port = isset($url_stuff['port']) ? $url_stuff['port']:80;
$fp = fsockopen($url_stuff['host'], $port);
$query = 'GET ' . $url_stuff['path'] . " HTTP/1.0\n";
$query .= 'Host: ' . $url_stuff['host'];
$query .= "\n\n";
fwrite($fp, $query);
while ($line = fread($fp, 1024)) {
$buffer .= $line;
}
preg_match('/Content-Length: ([0-9]+)/', $buffer, $parts);
return substr($buffer, - $parts[1]);
}
?>
Original function found on php.net
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Delete a files newer than filename in the local directory
Delete a files older (ie. not newer) than filename in the local directory
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I have written several times about this Lighttpd install. I had to check something on the server last night so I popped over to the server-stats page to see what kind of throughput it was pushing.
I was a little suprised at the 7MB/s. Thats pretty awesome. A large MP3 every second! 180 million requests and 15 Tera bytes processed without a hiccup isn’t too shabby either.
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The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was horrible. It was actually caused by a worthy adversary… a real storm. I have seen some of real devastation of Hurricane Rita, and I am in no way belittling the real, physical losses sustained in East Texas and Western Lousianna. BUT, a large percentage of the monetary loss and loss of life is a direct result of the unnecessary evacuations.
The ‘mandatory’ evacuations of cities and counties in all up and down the Texas Gulf Coast four days before landfall or even a halfway accurate projected landfall location has caused millions of dollars in lost business revenues, wages, wasted fuel costs and state and local infrastructure expenditures. The unwarranted mass evactuations from as far away as Corpus Christi, wasted hotel rooms that should have been available those that really might have been affected. For the sick and elderly who succumbed after fifteen hours of being stuck in a school bus with no a/c in the midday Texas heat, there is no excuse. What is that saying “Primum non nocere”, “First, do no harm”?
Too many people feel that we cried wolf on this one. If the next one happens anywhere near recent memory, NOBODY is listening.
***Note to Houston mayor
Before you decide to mandatorily evacuate two million people that aren’t in a flood plain, give the people that actually are in the storm surge warning more than an hour to get out of your way.
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Working on shared server, you can easily create files under a user's account with root or admin privileges, leaving the user with no way to edit or delete the files. Drop the following alias' into your .bashrc so you can easily chown and chmod to the user's user, group and permissions by referencing a file.
To use:
Or put it all together in a shell script refch.sh:
if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` referencefile files [params]";
exit 1
fi
chown $3 --reference $1 $2
chmod $3 --reference $1 $2
if [[ "$3" = *R* ]]; then
chmod $3 +X $2
fi
exit 0
To use:
The '-R' option means recursive, or act on every selected file in this directory and every subdirectory recursively.
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