lighttpd @1.4.28 - default config uses a network backend that isn't available on OS X

[kalle@…]

The default config file for lighttpd has the setting server.network-backend set to linux-sendfile. This option is obviously not available on MacOS X, so if you try to start lighttpd and miss that option it'll error out with an error message like this:

2011-02-25 14:45:52: (network.c.652) server.network-backend has a unknown value: linux-sendfile.

I'm not sure what an appropriate default would be (I set it to writev), but perhaps it doesn't matter since the installation tells you to change the config so it suits you anyway. Still, I think it's sort of odd that it doesn't even start with the default configuration, and it's not exactly a complex fix.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to cc the maintainer.

[jacobu@…]

Cc Me!