Setting Up A Web Server
May 4, 2016
We are going to work through installing and configuring the basics of lighttpd; a lightweight web server.
SSH to your OpenWRT device
If you are using Windows then start PuTTY and click Session on the left side, select SSH from the options, and then enter in the IP Address of your OpenWRT box into the Host Name field.
Once you’ve done this just click on Open to start up the SSH connection.
If you are connecting via terminal, then just SSH to your OpenWRT device using the following command, where 192.168.1.1 is your OpenWRT device’s IP address.
Installing lighthttp
Installation of the package is as simple as you would expect, simply run the following two commands:
opkg update
opkg install lighttpd
Configuration
Once the package is installed, we need to configure it. So run the following command to open the config file:
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd
Now look for a line similar to the following in your config file:
server.document-root = /www/
This is where you specify the root directory of your webserver, so make any changes here that you need.
Next you might want to enable logging so that you can troubleshoot any errors. To do this we just need to uncomment (remove the #) the following line:
server.errorlog = “/var/log/lighttpd/error.log”
Finally we need to set the port your server will run on. To do this, uncomment the following line:
server.port = 8000
You can also change the port if you want it running on something else.
Start Server On Boot (Optional)
To make your server run on startup, we just need to run one command:
/etc/init.d/lighttpd enable
If you no longer want it to start on boot, then run this instead:
/etc/init.d/lighttpd disable
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