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I have an embedded system running 18.04 LTS with lighttpd 1.4.45. There are features that have been added since 1.4.46 that I would like to use. I have searched to see if anyone has had success running a later version on this OS, but I haven't found anything. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Bryan Tomlin
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Note: by following the below method you will get lighttpd-1.4.46 which may have some security breaches, be careful.

To compile LigHTTPd from source we need

  1. Enable source code repositories from Software & Updates (software-properties-gtk)

  2. Get build dependencies of existing version

    sudo apt-get build-dep lighttpd
sudo apt-get install checkinstall

  3. Get source of 1.4.46 version:

    cd ~/Downloads
wget https://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.46.tar.gz
tar -xf lighttpd-1.4.46.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.46/
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall make install # to create deb

  4. Check the version

    $ lighttpd -v  
lighttpd/1.4.46 - a light and fast webserver
N0rbert
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