Assign a new Virtual host directory

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A basic question. If I have a RPi on my LAN with an IP address 192.168.x.xx, then I can type 192.168.x.xx/Skyaware/ in a browser on a desktop machine on the LAN to see the Skyaware map or 192.168.x.xx/Graphs1090/ to see performance graphs etc. I assume /Skyaware/ and /Graphs1090/ are names for ports. How do I go about setting up a new service with a new port and associated name? TIA

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Not ports. Virtual host directories.
Specified in the lighttpd server configuration

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Ok, I was also looking at those lighttpd .conf files for graphs1090. In my case I have a very simple static web page that has a table. The part I don’t understand in the 88-graphs1090.conf file is in the section:

alias.url += (
  "/graphs1090/graphs/" => "/run/graphs1090/",
  "/graphs1090/" => "/usr/share/graphs1090/html/",
)

It seems like I would need the equivalent of the second line only

"/graphs1090/" => "/usr/share/graphs1090/html/",

Don’t understand the first line:

"/graphs1090/graphs/" => "/run/graphs1090/"
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Ok, that was easy. Made a file
90-actable.conf
in
/etc/lighttpd/conf-available.

Made a symbolic link in

/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled

to the file.

sudo ln -sf /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/90-actable.conf  /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/90-actable.conf

The file 90-actable.conf just has

alias.url += (
  "/actable/" => "/usr/share/actable/html/"
)

where the directory

/usr/share/actable/html

has the html file, Javascript file, and data for the table.
Restarted lighttpd.
Seems to work ok.
Edit to add; I changed the title of the thread to Virtual host directory.

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