Webserver bring up (I): Install lighttpd and fastcgi++

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Webserver bring up(I): Install lighttpd and fastcgi++

Install Lighttpd

Lighttpd is a popular high performance webserver.

If you are using Debian based distributions, you can directly install it by apt install:

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sudo apt install lighttpd

If you are using Yocto, you also can install it easily because poky already provided recipe for it. you can find it at poky/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/.

The default installed version(no matter PC or Yocto) only provides basic functions, fastcgi is not included. To enable support for fastcgi you need to :

  1. Modify file lighttpd.conf(On PC path is /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) to add mod_fcgi into server.modules.
  2. If you are using Yocto, you also need to add lighttpd-module-fastcgi to IMAGE_INSTALL_append or declare dependencies of module fastcgi in your recipes:
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    IMAGE_INSTALL_append += "lighttpd-module-fastcgi"

Install fastcgi++

fastcgi++(fastcgipp) is a C++ FastCGI and Web development platform. I choose this library because it provides support for C++14 and the official site of fastcgi which provides C/C++ libraries before has been closed for several years.

Seems there is no yocto recipe for fastcgi++ on internet, but it’s easy to write a recipe by myself because it supports built by cmake. Here comes my recipe for fastcgi++:

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SUMMARY = "fastcgi++"
DESCRIPTION = "C++ FastCGI and Web development platform"
SECTION = "libs"
LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
AUTHOR = "Alex.Don.Scofield(codingspirit)"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"

${PN}_REPO = "github.com/eddic/fastcgipp.git"
SRCREV_${PN} = "5a5c3a263595a1792b2867188770bcf4f4df8b83"

TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"

SRC_URI = " \
  git://${${PN}_REPO};name=${PN};protocol=https;nobranch=1;destsuffix=git/${PN} \
  "

S = "${WORKDIR}/git/${PN}"
B = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}"


EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE"
inherit cmake

BTW to pass cmake runtime parameters in Yocto, we can use EXTRA_OECMAKE :

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EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DBUILD_SAMPLE=ON"
inherit cmake