Question

Did somebody managed to get TWiki running with Cygwin and lighttpd?

In Linux TWiki runs fine with thttpd, and lighttpd. In my situation password protexted WebHomes couldn't be entered. The password was simply not accepted.

thttpd

Download and compile. Then

# thttpd -d /home/httpd -u apache -c "**"

and be happy.

If you want to use the -g option, then

# ln /home/httpd/twiki/data/.htpasswd /home/httpd

# thttpd -g  -d /home/httpd -u apache -c "/twiki/bin/*"

and be happy again. thttpd was up and running within the minute.

lighttpd

Use

server.modules = ( "mod_rewrite",
                   "mod_access",
                   "mod_auth",
                   "mod_alias",
                   "mod_cgi",
#                  "mod_fastcgi",
#                  "mod_compress",
                   "mod_accesslog")

server.document-root = "/var/www/html"
server.dir-listing = "enable"
server.indexfiles    = ("index.html", "index.pl", "index.cgi")

server.errorlog = "/tmp/lighttpd.error.log"
accesslog.filename = "/tmp/lighttpd.access.log"

server.pid-file = "/tmp/lighttpd.pid"

server.bind = "127.0.0.1"
# server.port = 88

server.username = "apache"
server.groupname = "users"

url.access-deny = ("~", ".inc", ".bak")

alias.url = (
    "/twiki/bin"  =>   "/home/httpd/twiki/bin",
    "/twiki/pub"  =>   "/home/httpd/twiki/pub",
    "/cgi-bin"  =>   "/home/tonl/cgi-bin"

cgi.assign = (
    ".pl"       =>      "/usr/bin/perl",
    ".cgi"      =>      "/usr/bin/perl",
    ".py"       =>      "/usr/bin/python",
    "prog" => "",
    "attach" => "",
    "changes" => "",
<snip>

mimetype.assign            = (
  ".pdf"          =>      "application/pdf",
  ".sig"          =>      "application/pgp-signature",
<snip>

Start

# lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf

Here the authentication, that failed with me

auth.backend               = "htpasswd"
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/home/httpd/twiki/data/.htpasswd"

auth.require = ( "/Hidden/" =>
                    (
                      "method"  => "basic",
                      "realm"   => "Access to Hidden WebHome",
                      "require" => "valid-user"
                    )

Note: In Cygwin I couldn't get TWiki going.

Environment

-- TonTLam - 30 Sep 2005

Answer

Partial Answer!

The password protected WebHomes can be made to work with mod_auth. The .htpasswd file needs to be dumbed down for lighttpd and thttpd to parse it correctly. I have written a patch against TWiki 4.0.0 to fix this, as well as a script to convert the old .htpasswd to the new, readable, format. I will submit it ASAP. In the meantime, email me if you are interested.

I am also writing a patch for lighttpd to extend its ability to read .htpasswd files, and will submit it as well. Hoever, it could be several versions before adoption.

-- ThomasDodson - 24 Mar 2006

Sounds good, Thomas. When you get it working, you might consider creating a Cookbook (see CategoryCookbook) for others to follow in your footsteps.

Things have been quiet for a month, so I am assuming this can be closed.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 26 Apr 2006

Help! thttpd doesn't quite work for me with Twiki on mac os 10.3. When I try to access wiki/bin/configure, firefox tries to download a binary file.

-- TWikiGuest - 09 May 2006