Lighttpd

I've got lighttpd-1.4.18 compiled --with-openssl

Running as root (just for testing) with this config:

(how do you get brackets without links in this wikimarkup?)

'''$SERVER'''<nowiki>(open square bracket)'''"socket"'''(close square bracket)</nowiki> '''== "127.0.0.1:443" {'''
'''ssl.engine = "enable"''' '''}'''

'''ssl.pemfile                 = "/private/127.0.0.1.pem"'''

'''server.name                 = "127.0.0.1"'''

'''server.document-root        = "/web"'''

always fails with the error:

a default document-root has to be set

setting default values failed

I've tried changing the config in many ways, but the same error always appears.
There seems to be a total lack of useful debugging info. Running with -t gives
no useful info (no syntax errors). Running with -p is unhelpful (just the internally
parsed version of the config file).

I'd really appreciate any ideas on how to get this thing running.
Thanks.

server.port = 443
ssl.engine = "enable" 
ssl.pemfile = "/private/127.0.0.1.pem" 
server.name = "127.0.0.1" 
server.document-root = "/web" 

this is a bug tracker not a support tool. the error message was correct as you did not configure a document root in the global scope, but to achieve a ssl only server see the config snippet above.

Ok, thanks for the tip. As I was using the "links" browser (without CSS), I didn't see the notice that this is not a support tracker. Sorry about that.

By the way, do you have a feature requests tracker too?

I'd like to log a suggestion that the error message when document root is set within local scope should be expanded to explain the cause in more detail, i.e. "have you set a document-root within the global scope (outside any SERVER sections)?"

Thanks.

This tracker accepts feature requests (type: enhancement).

There will be never a good enough documentation, but feel free to improve it.

I really think the error message is pretty clear if you understood how the config works, and i think that is the real problem as lightys config is a little bit unusual (i think i learned most things about the config while i was reading the source ;-) )

But still this is no bug itself.