Installing a webserver on AXIOM Beta

1 Installing required packages

Make sure the AXIOM Beta is connected to the internet and then on the commandline run:

Update mirrors database:

pacman -Syy

Install webserver:

pacman -S lighttpd php php-cgi

start the webservice:

systemctl start lighttpd

write any pending changes to the file system:

sync

2 Configure Webserver

This is following the guide from the lighttpd archlinux wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/lighttpd

mkdir /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/
nano /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/cgi.conf

and place the following content in the file:

server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )

cgi.assign                 = ( ".pl"  => "/usr/bin/perl",
                              ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl",
                              ".rb"  => "/usr/bin/ruby",
                              ".erb" => "/usr/bin/eruby",
                              ".py"  => "/usr/bin/python",
                              ".php" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi" )

index-file.names           += ( "index.pl",   "default.pl",
                              "index.rb",   "default.rb",
                              "index.erb",  "default.erb",
                              "index.py",   "default.py",
                              "index.php",  "default.php" )

For PHP scripts you will need to make sure the following is set in /etc/php/php.ini

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

In your Lighttpd configuration file, /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf add:

include "conf.d/cgi.conf"