light serving needs

if you ever have the need to serve a few static pages — say munin output, for example — next to your elaborate "plone/zope behind haproxy behind nginx behind varnish" setup :), here's a quick way to run lighttpd via supervisor using buildout.

with a buildout.cfg like:

[buildout]
parts =
  lighttpd
  lighttpdconf
  supervisor

[lighttpd]
recipe = zc.recipe.cmmi
url = http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23.tar.gz

[lighttpdconf]
recipe = collective.recipe.template
input = ${buildout:directory}/lighttpd.conf.in
output = ${buildout:directory}/etc/lighttpd.conf
directory = /var/www/munin
port = 8080

[supervisor]
recipe = collective.recipe.supervisor
programs =
  10 lighttpd ${buildout:directory}/parts/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd [-D -f ${buildout:directory}/etc/lighttpd.conf]

and a configuration template (saved as lighttpd.conf.in) like:

server.document-root = "${lighttpdconf:directory}"
server.port = "${lighttpdconf:port}"
server.tag ="lighttpd"
index-file.names = ( "index.html" )
mimetype.assign = (
  ".html" => "text/html", 
  ".txt" => "text/plain",
  ".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
  ".png" => "image/png", 
  ".css" => "text/css",
  ".js"  => "text/javascript",
  ".xml" => "text/xml",
  ".pdf" => "application/pdf",
)

all you need to do is the following:

$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
$ bin/supervisord

after which you can access the contents of /var/www/munin at http://localhost:8080/.

please refer to the lighttpd documentation if you need more than this rather minimal setup...