Configuring a web server on RT-N66U

[vfrvulcan]

I'm trying to get a web server running on my RT-N66U but whatever way I turn I get connection refused when trying to connect to localhost:82

I've updated to the latest alpha firmware for Entware-ng support, uninstalled downloadmaster, installed Entware and lighttpd following the guide at http://www.snbforums.com/threads/tutorial-lighttpd-web-server-with-php-support-through-entware.9310/ and it's updated guide at https://www.hqt.ro/lighttpd-web-server-with-php-support-through-entware-ng/

I've installed lighttpd on port 82 and when I couldn't get that to work (on any port) I installed Nginx with that listening on port 83.

The syslog shows both services failed to start on boot and attempts to restart them fail, with one exception: issuing a start command shows "Starting lighttpd.... done." but still doesn't work locally or from WAN.

lighttpd -t -f lighttpd.conf returns Syntax OK but lighttpd -f returns (Network.c.410) can't bind to port: 80 Address already in use

I have index.html and info.php files in share/www and share/nginx folders, port forwarding set up in gui i/f and iptables entries made in firewall-start.

I'm not from a Linux background so it may be something obvious! lighttpd error log doesn't exist and the only entry in nginx log is

2015/12/16 19:51:53 [emerg] 1179#0: invalid number of arguments in "fastcgi_param" directive in /opt/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:24

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Aaron

#lighttpd.conf (all default apart from port #):

server.modules = (
)

server.document-root        = "/opt/share/www"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/opt/tmp" )
server.errorlog             = "/opt/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/opt/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
#server.username             = "http"
#server.groupname            = "www-data"

index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html",
                                "index.htm", "default.htm",
                                "index.lighttpd.html" )

static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )

### Options that are useful but not always necessary:
#server.chroot               = "/"
#server.port                 = 82
#server.bind                 = "localhost"
#server.tag                  = "lighttpd"
#server.errorlog-use-syslog  = "enable"
#server.network-backend      = "write"

### Use IPv6 if available
#include_shell "/opt/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl"

#dir-listing.encoding        = "utf-8"
#server.dir-listing          = "enable"

include       "/opt/etc/lighttpd/mime.conf"
include_shell "cat /opt/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/*.conf"

#nginx.conf (all default apart from port #):

user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 64;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
server {
listen 83;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root /opt/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /opt/share/nginx/50x.html {
root html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
root /opt/share/nginx/html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME ;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
}

#firewall-start

#!/bin/sh
#

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 82 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 83 -j ACCEPT

 

[mstombs]

Not a surprise port 80 hogged by config gui.
Your lighttpd.conf has the port 82 entry commented out!

 

[Nullity]

You need to uncomment (remove "#" at beginning of line) the port line.

By the way, why are you doing all of this? There has to be a better way than overloading your poor router.

 

[vfrvulcan]

Not a surprise port 80 hogged by config gui.
Your lighttpd.conf has the port 82 entry commented out!

Doh!!!!!

Thanks - blind for staring at it!!!

Working now, as is the nginx conf by commenting out the erroring line 24