Lighttpd doesn't start at jail boot

[lib13]

My system is a 13.0-RELEASE-p3 running on an amd64 architecture.

I've tried this in several jails and in two different systems.

After installing and configuring lighttpd in a jail, this software can be started with no problem using:

service lighttpd start

or

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd start

In /etc/rc.conf there's several services that are configured to start at boot (apart from others):

lighttpd_enable="YES"
ssh_enable="YES"
php_fpm_enable="YES"

ssh and php_fpm start fine, lighttpd never starts.
/var/log/messages show:

root[81074]: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start lighttpd

 

[lib13]

Just to add that lighttpd_flags="-f /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf" in /etc/rc.conf doesn't solve the issue.

 

[Tieks]

What is in your file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd? Does it contain an rcvar with value "lighttpd_enable"?

 

[SirDice]

ssh_enable="YES"

This won't do much, it's sshd_enable="YES".

Just to add that lighttpd_flags="-f /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf" in /etc/rc.conf doesn't solve the issue.

It's ignored. Nothing in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd script does anything with lighttpd_flags. If you look at that script you'll see that lighttpd_conf is defined by default and already set to /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.

root[81074]: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start lighttpd

Is your configuration depending on something else? During boot the order might be different and the thing it depends on hasn't been started yet.

 

[lib13]

The configuration file look fine, otherwise the service wouldn't start.

lighttpd -tt -f /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

There's no enable in it:

lighttpd -p -f /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf | grep enable

I've commented the includes and modules.conf and the configuration file for lighttpd is:

# grep -v '^#' /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf | grep -v '^$'
var.log_root    = "/var/log/lighttpd"
var.server_root = "/usr/local/www/lighttpd"
var.state_dir   = "/var/run"
var.home_dir    = "/var/run/lighttpd"
var.conf_dir    = "/usr/local/etc/lighttpd"
var.vhosts_dir  = server_root + "/vhosts"
var.cache_dir   = "/var/cache/lighttpd"
var.socket_dir  = home_dir + "/sockets"
server.port = 80
server.use-ipv6 = "disable"
server.bind = "192.168.12.5"
server.username  = "www"
server.groupname = "www"
server.systemd-socket-activation = "disable"
server.document-root = "/usr/local/www" + "/freshrss/p"
server.pid-file = state_dir + "/lighttpd.pid"
server.errorlog             = log_root + "/error.log"
server.event-handler = "kqueue"
server.network-backend = "sendfile"
server.max-fds = 1024
server.stat-cache-engine = "simple"
server.max-connections = 1024
index-file.names += (
  "index.xhtml", "index.html", "index.htm", "default.htm", "index.php"
)
url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi", ".scgi" )

AFAICT there's no dependency on other services for lighttpd.
Still, in /etc/rc.conf, I've commented the lines of pf, sshd (ssh_enable was a typo), php_fpm,

# grep -v '^#' /etc/rc.conf | grep -v '^$'         
pf_enable="NO"
pf_rules="/etc/pf.rules"
pflog_enable="YES"
pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog"
ftpproxy_enable="NO"
rpcbind_enable="NO"
cron_flags=" -J 60"
syslogd_enable="YES"
syslogd_flags="-ss"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
lighttpd_enable="YES"

This happens in all jails and I think in the base system as well. Can't try now as I've got some long processes running.

Doesn't it happen to you? Could you please try to create a jail and enable lighttpd to be started on boot?

 

[D-FENS]

Your /var/log/messages shows what's the problem: root[81074]: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start lighttpd
You need to figure out what went wrong.
First, the jail has a separate log file, which you can analyze. It contains messages logged in the very beginning of starting the jail. Maybe there are some hints there.
The logfile can be configured in /etc/jail.conf inside your jail's block like so:

exec.consolelog = "$path/../log/jail_${name}_console.log";

Choose a suitable location for yourself.

If this does not show anything strange, maybe lighttpd has some external log under /var/log. Search for it. Look for the logfiles with newest modification dates.
Also, if possible - increase the debug level.

 

[lib13]

Hi roccobaroccoSC, I should have looked at that log file, but didn't remember to do it. Just looked at the log of lighttpd...

The error was due to the inability of lighttpd to bind to the network address of the vnet jail it's running on.
Changing the server.bind to "0.0.0.0" solved the issue.

Some relevant threads:
- lighttpd support forum
- aws support

Thank you very much!