[Cialug] thttpd

[Charles Dunbar]

The easiest way I know (I do more redhat than debian, someone wiser
might know more) would be to add the command in your crontab, since
the init script doesn't seem to work well:

$ sudo crontab -e

Add the line:

@reboot /usr/sbin/thttpd -C /etc/thttpd/thttpd.conf

and save/exit the file editor.

You can verify the full path of thttpd to see the exact file it's
calling by typing:
$ whereis thttpd

Charles

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> That's the ticket!  I can see my root page now.  How do I make it start this
> way each time I boot up the server without having to manually start it each
> time?
>
> Thank you very much!
> From: Charles Dunbar <ccdunbar at gmail.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 7:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] thttpd
>
> Hey Tom,
>
> I just did a double check on my Ubuntu 10.10 box, hopefully it's
> similar enough to help you out.
>
> After getting the package installed (sudo apt-get install thttpd), I
> noticed it didn't auto-start like it says it does in the tutorial
> you've linked.
>
> Most programs usually have a script in /etc/init.d/(program name) that
> takes "start, stop, status, restart" as basic arguments, to see if the
> program is running, and to start/stop the program.  thttpd's script in
> /etc/init.d/ did absolutely nothing, printing no errors or anything,
> so I just ran the command by itself
>
> thttpd does not seem to work as I'd expect, with a "start" command in
> the command, but trying it out reveled the arguments it could take:
>
> $ sudo thttpd start
> usage:  thttpd [-C configfile] [-p port] [-d dir] [-r|-nor] [-dd
> data_dir] [-s|-nos] [-v|-nov] [-g|-nog] [-u user] [-c cgipat] [-t
> throttles] [-h host] [-l logfile] [-i pidfile] [-T charset] [-P P3P]
> [-M maxage] [-V] [-D]
>
>
> Specifying the config file caused the server to start up:
>
> $ sudo thttpd -C /etc/thttpd/thttpd.conf
>
> search for thttpd in output of ps aux:
>
> $ ps aux | grep thttpd
> www-data 23646  0.0  0.0  2312  616 ?        Ss  19:31  0:00
> thttpd -C /etc/thttpd/thttpd.conf
>
>
> If you have any questions about the steps along the way, feel free to
> ask.  Jumping head first into Linux can be a bit daunting after years
> of Windows.
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> You are talking over my head with most of these questions.
>>
>> I am the newbie of the group if you have been at the Des Moines meetings.
>> I
>> am trying to learn linux but it is quite different than I am use to since
>> I
>> have been a Windows guy for years.
>>
>> As for the log file there is none created.  I performed the install as the
>> root user (sudo).  How do I determine what user/permissions it is
>> attempting
>> to start under?
>>
>> I followed a how to at the following web addresss.
>>
>> http://radagast.bglug.ca/howto_build_a_server/howto_build_a_server_part1
>>
>>
>> From: Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
>> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group' <cialug at cialug.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] thttpd
>>
>> Check the log files to see if there are any reasons for it not to start?
>> Is
>> it starting under the correct user permissions?  Does the user it is
>> trying
>> to run as have permissions to the config or for the content it is trying
>> to
>> serve?
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Tom Sellers
>> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 6:11 PM
>> To: Linux User Group Iowa
>> Subject: [Cialug] thttpd
>>
>> I installed thttpd on a server running Ubuntu 11.04 and can't seem to get
>> it
>> to start.  I have examined the thttpd.conf file and compared it with an
>> exmple that I found which did not turn up any issues.  I created a short
>> index.html file in the directory it told me to put it.  However when I try
>> to connect to the web page I get an error indicating the server is not
>> running (no response!).  I can ping the server from the machine I am
>> attempting to browse from (on same local segment) but can't connect to the
>> web page.
>>
>> I used the ps -e command to see all the running processes and don't see
>> thttpd in there anywhere.
>>
>> I also looked in the directory where the log is to be but do not see any
>> log
>> there.
>>
>> Anyone willing to help me out on this?
>>
>> Thanks!
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