Debian Bullseye/sid arm64 - lighttp broken after update

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 10:20am

I am running Linux 5.9.0-1-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.1-1 (2020-10-17) aarch64 GNU/Linux on a Pine64 Rock64 SBC and after system update plus reboot I lost my local map, because the package for lighttp got broken up into several modules now, the following modules were installed: lighttpd-mod-openssl/testing,now 1.4.56~rc7-1 arm64 [installed,automatic], lighttpd-mod-deflate/testing,now 1.4.56~rc7-1 arm64 [installed,automatic], lighttpd/testing,now 1.4.56~rc7-1 arm64 [installed,automatic] and javascript-common/testing,now 11 all [installed,automatic] is there a way in how to fix this so that local map works again?

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 10:23am

I don’t think the modules you mentioned are the issue, please share the output of the lighttpd logs via pastebin.com:

Debug commands · wiedehopf/adsb-wiki Wiki · GitHub

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 10:34am

Just run sudo systemctl status lighttpd and it returned

● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-11-09 13:21:20 GMT; 21h ago
Process: 463 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)

Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.<

Will investigate further and report back.

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 10:37am

-- Logs begin at Mon 2020-09-14 07:04:41 BST, end at Tue 2020-11-10 10:36:01 GMT. --
Nov 01 10:06:54 debian systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 01 10:06:55 debian systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 01 10:06:57 debian systemd[1]: Stopping Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 01 10:06:57 debian systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Succeeded.
Nov 01 10:06:57 debian systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 01 10:06:57 debian systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 01 10:06:58 debian systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 01 10:42:03 debian systemd[1]: Stopping Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 01 10:42:03 debian systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Succeeded.
Nov 01 10:42:03 debian systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
-- Reboot --
Nov 01 10:42:05 debian systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 01 10:42:05 debian systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 05 13:13:18 debian systemd[1]: Stopping Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:13:18 debian systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Succeeded.
Nov 05 13:13:18 debian systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
-- Reboot --
Nov 05 13:13:43 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 05 13:13:44 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Started Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:11 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopping Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:20:11 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Succeeded.
Nov 09 13:20:11 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker lighttpd[9328]: 2020-11-09 13:20:12: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker lighttpd[9328]: 2020-11-09 13:20:12: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker lighttpd[9363]: 2020-11-09 13:20:12: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker lighttpd[9363]: 2020-11-09 13:20:12: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker lighttpd[9374]: 2020-11-09 13:20:13: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker lighttpd[9374]: 2020-11-09 13:20:13: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:13 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker lighttpd[9388]: 2020-11-09 13:20:13: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker lighttpd[9388]: 2020-11-09 13:20:13: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker lighttpd[9398]: 2020-11-09 13:20:14: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker lighttpd[9398]: 2020-11-09 13:20:14: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:20:14 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:15 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Nov 09 13:20:15 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:20:15 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 09 13:20:15 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:20:15 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
-- Reboot --
Nov 09 13:21:17 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker lighttpd[405]: 2020-11-09 13:21:17: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker lighttpd[405]: 2020-11-09 13:21:17: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:18 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker lighttpd[435]: 2020-11-09 13:21:18: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker lighttpd[435]: 2020-11-09 13:21:18: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker lighttpd[444]: 2020-11-09 13:21:19: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker lighttpd[444]: 2020-11-09 13:21:19: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker lighttpd[454]: 2020-11-09 13:21:19: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker lighttpd[454]: 2020-11-09 13:21:19: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:21:19 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker lighttpd[463]: 2020-11-09 13:21:20: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker lighttpd[463]: 2020-11-09 13:21:20: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Stopped Lighttpd Daemon.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 09 13:21:20 FlightTracker systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 10:40am

I’ll need the output for the other two commands listed, especially the directory listing for conf-enabled.

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 10:42am

ls /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled returned

88-dump1090-fa-statcache.conf 89-dump1090-fa.conf 90-javascript-alias.conf

and grep mod_setenv /etc/lighttpd/ -rnT returned

|/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/89-dump1090-fa.conf:  42:|server.modules += ( "mod_setenv" )
|/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/05-setenv.conf:  3:|server.modules                += ( "mod_setenv" )

sudo lighttpd -v returned

lighttpd/1.4.56 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver

and both sudo lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/89-dump1090-fa.conf and sudo lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/05-setenv.conf returned

Syntax OK

same goes for 88-dump1090-fa-statcache.conf, 89-dump1090-fa.conf and 90-javascript-alias.conf all returned

Syntax OK

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 11:14am

So … have a modified /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf i would say.
Somewhere in there you have / aliased before the dump1090-fa configuration is parsed, thus the error.

If you don’t know how to proceed, share the following please:

cat  /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/89-dump1090-fa.conf

ls -l /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/89-dump1090-fa.conf

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 11:29am

No modified lighttpd.conf all standard install, build direct from git.

cat /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf returned

server.modules = (
	"mod_indexfile",
	"mod_access",
	"mod_alias",
 	"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             = "/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80

# features
#https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Server_feature-flagsDetails
server.feature-flags       += ("server.h2proto" => "enable")
server.feature-flags       += ("server.h2c"     => "enable")
server.feature-flags       += ("server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" => 5)
#server.feature-flags       += ("server.graceful-restart-bg" => "enable")

# strict parsing and normalization of URL for consistency and security
# https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Server_http-parseoptsDetails
# (might need to explicitly set "url-path-2f-decode" = "disable"
#  if a specific application is encoding URLs inside url-path)
server.http-parseopts = (
  "header-strict"           => "enable",# default
  "host-strict"             => "enable",# default
  "host-normalize"          => "enable",# default
  "url-normalize-unreserved"=> "enable",# recommended highly
  "url-normalize-required"  => "enable",# recommended
  "url-ctrls-reject"        => "enable",# recommended
  "url-path-2f-decode"      => "enable",# recommended highly (unless breaks app)
 #"url-path-2f-reject"      => "enable",
  "url-path-dotseg-remove"  => "enable",# recommended highly (unless breaks app)
 #"url-path-dotseg-reject"  => "enable",
 #"url-query-20-plus"       => "enable",# consistency in query string
)

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

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

#server.compat-module-load   = "disable"
server.modules += (
	"mod_dirlisting",
	"mod_staticfile",
)

and cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/89-dump1090-fa.conf returned

# Allows access to the static files that provide the dump1090 map view,
# and also to the dynamically-generated json parts that contain aircraft
# data and are periodically written by the dump1090 daemon.

# Enable alias module
#
## This module is normally already enabled in lighttpd, so you should not
## need to uncommment this line.
## There are some cases (e.g. when installing this on a Raspberry Pi
## that runs PiHole) in which the module has been removed from the
## default configuration, and the dump1090-fa web interface no longer
## loads properly.
## If this is what you are experiencing, or if you see messages in your
## error log like:
## (server.c.1493) WARNING: unknown config-key: alias.url (ignored)
## then uncommenting this line and then restarting lighttpd could fix
## the issue.
## This is not enabled by default as standard lighttpd will not start if
## modules are loaded multiple times.
#
# server.modules += ( "mod_alias" )

alias.url += (
  "/dump1090-fa/data/" => "/run/dump1090-fa/",
  "/dump1090-fa/" => "/usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/"
)

# redirect the slash-less URL
url.redirect += (
  "^/dump1090-fa$" => "/dump1090-fa/"
)

# Listen on port 8080 and serve the map there, too.
$SERVER["socket"] == ":8080" {
  alias.url += (
    "/data/" => "/run/dump1090-fa/",
    "/" => "/usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/"
  )
}

# Add CORS header
server.modules += ( "mod_setenv" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/dump1090-fa/data/.*\.json$" {
  setenv.set-response-header = ( "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => "*" )
}

# Uncomment this section to enable SSL traffic (HTTPS) - especially useful
# for .dev domains
## Listen on 8443 for SSL connections
#server.modules += ( "mod_openssl" )
#$HTTP["host"] == "piaware.example.com" {
#  $SERVER["socket"] == ":8443" {
#    ssl.engine = "enable"
#    ssl.pemfile = "/etc/ssl/certs/combined.pem"
#    ssl.ca-file =  "/etc/ssl/certs/fullchain.cer"
#    ssl.honor-cipher-order = "enable"
#    ssl.cipher-list = "EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH"
#    ssl.use-sslv2 = "disable"
#    ssl.use-sslv3 = "disable"       
#    
#  alias.url += (
#    "/data/" => "/run/dump1090-fa/",
#    "/" => "/usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/"
#  )
#  }
#}
#
## Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
#$HTTP["scheme"] == "http" {
#  $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*" {
#    url.redirect = (".*" => "https://%0$0")
#  }
#}

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 11:38am

This is how my setup is done → GitHub - as365n4/arm64_Debian_ADSB_Receiver_Setup_for_FlightAware: This guide is for setting up a feeder (Flight/Aircraft Tracker) for FlightAware on arm64 devices running Debian.

Since it is my “test” rig, I haven’t bothered with installing tar1090 or Dump1090-OpenLayers3 mod as I do on my “production” rigs.

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 12:03pm

That’s really strange … so the offending aliasing of / can only be in:

cat /etc/lighttpd/88-dump1090-fa-statcache.conf

It really shouldn’t be but let’s check nonetheless.

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 12:22pm

cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/88-dump1090-fa-statcache.conf returned

# The stat cache must be disabled, as aircraft.json changes
# frequently and lighttpd's stat cache often ends up with the
# wrong content length.
server.stat-cache-engine    = "disable"

cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/90-javascript-alias.conf returned

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

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 2:25pm

Pretty much out of ideas …

ls -l /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/
cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/*

Maybe it’s not symlinks but files for some reason there was a bug … with tar1090 actually some time ago

As i’m pretty sure you don’t need it, remove the js conf

sudo rm /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/90-javascript-alias.conf
sudo systemctl restart lighttpd

Then check the log again.

jokessler · November 10, 2020, 3:06pm

thankfully I only moved 90-javascript-alias.conf instead of deleting it, as lighttpd was now complaing that 90-javascript-alias.conf was missing in addition to that “(mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: /dump1090-fa/' will never match as /’ matched first” error message, so I put it back.

As I did the update yesterday there was a lenghty text message displayed explaing the break-up of lighttpd into several submodules, but unfortunately I took no copy of it. And the Debian Package Tracker has no useful info either in this regard.

ls -l /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/ returned

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Nov  1 10:06 88-dump1090-fa-statcache.conf -> ../conf-available/88-dump1090-fa-statcache.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Nov  1 10:06 89-dump1090-fa.conf -> ../conf-available/89-dump1090-fa.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Oct 31 23:13 90-javascript-alias.conf -> ../conf-available/90-javascript-alias.conf

and cat /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/ returned

# The stat cache must be disabled, as aircraft.json changes
# frequently and lighttpd's stat cache often ends up with the
# wrong content length.
server.stat-cache-engine    = "disable"
# Allows access to the static files that provide the dump1090 map view,
# and also to the dynamically-generated json parts that contain aircraft
# data and are periodically written by the dump1090 daemon.

# Enable alias module
#
## This module is normally already enabled in lighttpd, so you should not
## need to uncommment this line.
## There are some cases (e.g. when installing this on a Raspberry Pi
## that runs PiHole) in which the module has been removed from the
## default configuration, and the dump1090-fa web interface no longer
## loads properly.
## If this is what you are experiencing, or if you see messages in your
## error log like:
## (server.c.1493) WARNING: unknown config-key: alias.url (ignored)
## then uncommenting this line and then restarting lighttpd could fix
## the issue.
## This is not enabled by default as standard lighttpd will not start if
## modules are loaded multiple times.
#
# server.modules += ( "mod_alias" )

alias.url += (
  "/dump1090-fa/data/" => "/run/dump1090-fa/",
  "/dump1090-fa/" => "/usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/"
)

# redirect the slash-less URL
url.redirect += (
  "^/dump1090-fa$" => "/dump1090-fa/"
)

# Listen on port 8080 and serve the map there, too.
$SERVER["socket"] == ":8080" {
  alias.url += (
    "/data/" => "/run/dump1090-fa/",
    "/" => "/usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/"
  )
}

# Add CORS header
server.modules += ( "mod_setenv" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/dump1090-fa/data/.*\.json$" {
  setenv.set-response-header = ( "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => "*" )
}

# Uncomment this section to enable SSL traffic (HTTPS) - especially useful
# for .dev domains
## Listen on 8443 for SSL connections
#server.modules += ( "mod_openssl" )
#$HTTP["host"] == "piaware.example.com" {
#  $SERVER["socket"] == ":8443" {
#    ssl.engine = "enable"
#    ssl.pemfile = "/etc/ssl/certs/combined.pem"
#    ssl.ca-file =  "/etc/ssl/certs/fullchain.cer"
#    ssl.honor-cipher-order = "enable"
#    ssl.cipher-list = "EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH"
#    ssl.use-sslv2 = "disable"
#    ssl.use-sslv3 = "disable"       
#    
#  alias.url += (
#    "/data/" => "/run/dump1090-fa/",
#    "/" => "/usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/"
#  )
#  }
#}
#
## Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
#$HTTP["scheme"] == "http" {
#  $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*" {
#    url.redirect = (".*" => "https://%0$0")
#  }
#}

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

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 5:55pm

Oh … i meant:

sudo rm /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/90-javascript-alias.conf

wrong folder …

Anyhow … it really shouldn’t have any effect.
No clue what’s going on.

wiedehopf · November 10, 2020, 11:15pm

Didn’t quite realize you were on testing.

The lighttpd shipped in Debian testing is currently just broken, pretty sure.

jokessler · November 11, 2020, 10:54am

One has to be on bullseye/sid as the kernel in buster is so hopelessly outdated (4.19).
For best performance on Rockchip and especially Allwinner H6 based SBC a Kernel 5.8 or higher is a must. And Vanilla Debian defaults automatically to bullseye/sid when installed directly from Debian sources.

I have checked Debian Changelog for lighttpd and you might be right that it is just broken as they seem to do some restructuring on the package itself…

lighttpd (1.4.56~rc7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

Upload to unstable.

drop mod_authn_dbi.so from debian/not-installed

– Helmut Grohne <> Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:03:57 +0100

lighttpd (1.4.56~rc7-0+exp2) experimental; urgency=medium

[ Glenn Strauss ]

build lighttpd base against Nettle

split off package lighttpd-mod-openssl

split off package lighttpd-mod-deflate

merge lighttpd-mod-cml and lighttpd-mod-magnet into lighttpd-modules-lua

replace mod_compress with mod_deflate

build with brotli support; replace bzip2 support

separate package for each TLS module
mod_openssl, mod_mbedtls, mod_nss, mod_wolfssl

new package lighttpd-modules-dbi with mod_authn_dbi, mod_vhostdb_dbi

document deprecated modules: mod_authn_mysql, mod_mysql_vhost

remove libattr1-dev dependency

[ Helmut Grohne ]

remove mod_deflate from the default configuration

[ Glenn Strauss ]

lighttpd.conf enable HTTP/2 feature

[ Helmut Grohne ]

use the system libxxhash instead of our vendor copy

– Helmut Grohne <> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:18:08 +0100

lighttpd (1.4.56~rc7-0+exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

New upstream version 1.4.56~rc7

– Helmut Grohne <> Tue, 03 Nov 2020 05:51:40 +0100

lighttpd (1.4.56~rc2-0+exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

fix php-fpm socket path.
Thanks to Joe Nahmias <> (Closes: #973300)

New upstream version 1.4.56~rc2

Update debian/copyright

Drop all patches - all applied upstream

mod_compress is merged into mod_deflate

Skip installing mod_authn_dbi for now

load-all-modules test skips deprecated mod_vhost_mysql

– Helmut Grohne <> Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:54:18 +0100

wiedehopf · November 11, 2020, 1:25pm

So apparently it doesn’t handle the configuration for the extra port very well in the new version. (let’s hope they fix that)
Removing the $SERVER["socket"] section fixes the issue.

I’d recommend to use nginx anyhow, to make it easier i provide config files that can be included when using tar1090: GitHub - wiedehopf/tar1090: Provides an improved webinterface for use with ADS-B decoders readsb / dump1090-fa

(it’s displayed at the end of the script if nginx is installed)

Note tar1090 doesn’t play too well with that lighttpd version either … (just yet anyway, i might add some work-arounds).

sudo rm /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/95-tar1090-otherport.conf

This fixes it mostly … it will still show lots of warnings but it should work.

jokessler · November 11, 2020, 3:22pm

Cool stuff, many thanks for the tip and easy fix.

I’ve commented out the “Listen on port 8080” section in 89-dump1090-fa.conf and restarted lighttpd and the map is back.

gstrauss42 · November 11, 2020, 9:17pm

Issues do not get fixed if they do not get reported. Please consider reporting issues upstream. Thank you from a lighttpd developer who happened to find this page with an out-of-the-blue random search.

gstrauss42 · November 11, 2020, 9:32pm

jokessler:

Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker lighttpd[9363]: 2020-11-09 13:20:12: (mod_alias.c.70) url.alias: `/dump1090-fa/' will never match as `/' matched first
Nov 09 13:20:12 FlightTracker lighttpd[9363]: 2020-11-09 13:20:12: (server.c.1484) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

That is an error in the user-configuration, not in lighttpd. The most-specific matches need to be listed before the more general matches.

You can run lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -p to print out the entire configuration as it is parsed by lighttpd. Then you can identity the place(s) with alias.url ordering issues.

The lighttpd documentation provides some examples how to use variables to share configuration in different scopes. The examples might give you ideas how to more easily manage the list of aliases.
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_ModSetEnv

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