by damonp on September 30, 2005
in SysAdmin
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.
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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.
<?php
function http_get_file
($url) {
$url_stuff =
parse_url($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
Update: 3-Feb-11
Updated function to download a remote file with PHP and cURL.
Popularity: 48%
