Questions[lighttpd](ubuntu)

Every time I turn on my laptop, I see this error message about Lighttpd appearing several times while booting process (also on systemctl --failed):

Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
See 'systemctl status lighttpd.service' for details.

After logging in, I typed systemctl status lighttpd.service and got this output:

● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-09-06 20:54:16 +05; 22min ago
  Process: 1170 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=127)

Sen 06 20:54:16 ibrokhim-i systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sen 06 20:54:16 ibrokhim-i systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Sen 06 20:54:16 ibrokhim-i systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Sen 06 20:54:16 ibrokhim-i systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sen 06 20:54:16 ibrokhim-i systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sen 06 20:54:16 ibrokhim-i systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.

Also, this is the output from cat /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf:

server.modules = (
    "mod_access",
    "mod_alias",
    "mod_compress",
    "mod_redirect",
)

server.document-root        = "/var/www/html"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80


index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )

compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype           = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )

# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
## Use ipv6 if available
#include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"

How can I fix this problem?

I'm trying to use a shared folder from the host Windows machine as the root directory for lighttpd on the guest Ubuntu virtual machine. When I attempt to change the permissions, nothing happens. The permissions always remain the same (as shown below). lighttpd always returns a 403 error no matter the file type. How can I change the file permissions?

Edit:

Research suggests adding my user to the vboxsf user group will allow me to change the permissions. When I attempt to add my user to the group using usermod, it seems to have worked but the changed are immediately overridden and rolled back. Other sources suggest I have to manually mount the disk with permissions I want. Despite my attempts at changing the owner, root still remains owner. This is despite my earlier explanation of attempting to use usermod to change the owner. Checking the group settings in the /etc/group file, I see my username is listed. However, virtualbox may be interferring.

As an alternative, I'm considering doing a network share from the guest to the host.

End Edit

/media/sf_Space.io$ ls -l
total 10
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  css
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    8 May 12 12:27  index.html
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  js
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  PythonCGITest
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 1181 May 12 11:57  README.md
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  sprites
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf  587 May 12 11:57  test.html
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 May 12 11:57 'welcome page (sketch)'

I need to install php-apc on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04

First of all, can I just install this package to make it work with php 5.2 + lighttpd on these Ubuntu versions ?

I've tried to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 and I get the following error:

sudo apt-get install php-apc

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  php-apc: Depends: phpapi-20090626+lfs
E: Broken packages

thanks

I've found this tutorial to install APC on servers with lighttpd + php 5.2 on Ubuntu 10.

However, when I run sudo pecl install apc the package is just downloaded and is not installed. (i.e. I'm not asked the next question" and apc.ini file is not created at all.

If I run only pecl install apc I get a warning (no permissions to write some files).

(I need instructions for both 9.04 and 10.04)

thanks

Is there an elegant way, other than messing with /etc/rc?.d, to control the daemon loading at boot time?

My personal concern is stopping Nginx from loading at boot, while setting lighttpd to do load at boot.

Thanks in advance, Adam