install of Lighttpd in centos 404 error

Question

I have installed Lighttpd in centos. Its fresh installed, and server is from digital ocean. For installation i took guide from howtoforge. which was suggested in one of the post in this site.

Now issue is i am keep getting 404 not found error. I havent even changed anything, so it should display the default welcome page? but still nothing. I have disabled ipv6 in conf.file as per the guide.

If anyone can suggest me if i am missing anything from install guide.

Thank you.

Answer 1

The default root location from where the server stats is:

var.server_root = "/var/www"
server.document-root = server_root + "/htdocs"

So you must put your index.html in /var/log/www/htdocs directory

Answer 2

Go to

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

And uncomment:

server.max-fds = 2048

Restart the service - a way could be service lighttpd restart

Answer 3

A couple of things to check.

1. Inside of your lighttpd.conf make sure server.document-root is set to the location of your web root.

2. Make sure index-file.names is set something like ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" ) is good.

3. Create an index.html inside of your webroot and see if it loads in a browser.