New install on Raspbian Buster: Webserver (lighttpd) install issues

[gordee78]

Brand new Raspbian Buster install on a 3A+.

RaspiSump install itself appears to be fine (installed as 1m cron job). But the Lighttpd installation section does not work as expected. Webserver however, has never responded to requests.

sudo apt-get install lighttpd
sudo cp /home/pi/raspi-sump/sample_config/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd
sudo lighttpd-enable-mod dir-listing
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

Final command of the install is to run rsumpwebchart.py which returns:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ rsumpwebchart.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py:424: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning:
Passing one of 'on', 'true', 'off', 'false' as a boolean is deprecated; use an actual boolean (True/False) instead.
  warn_deprecated("2.2", "Passing one of 'on', 'true', 'off', 'false' as a "

This being a warning I ignored it.

Trying to investigate this a little Lighttpd says to validate configuration file using the below command:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo cp /home/pi/raspi-sump/sample_config/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf                  
/bin/bash: /usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl: No such file or directory
2021-07-18 13:10:14: (configfile.c.1468) command "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl" exited non-zero: 127
2021-07-18 13:10:14: (configfile.c.1296) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 29 pos: 14 parser failed somehow near here: (EOL)

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"

But the contents of /usr/share/lighttpd: (Missing create-mine.assign.pl)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls /usr/share/lighttpd/
create-mime.conf.pl  include-conf-enabled.pl  index.html  use-ipv6.pl
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ 
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Did I miss anything? Or has something changed with lighttpd? Thank you.

[alaudet]

Is it related to this issue?

https://www.linuxnorth.org/raspi-sump/faq.html#9t

[gordee78]

Ack yes. That nailed it. Thank you.

I actually DID do option #2 in FAQ but convoluted it with an additional change as recommended by lighttpd -tt:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

WARNING: include-conf-enabled.pl is deprecated and slated for removal.
         Replace in lighttpd.conf with:
           include "/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/*.conf"

2021-07-18 23:05:23: (configfile.c.1606) server.upload-dirs doesn't exist: /var/cache/lighttpd/uploads
2021-07-18 23:05:23: (mod_compress.c.275) can't stat compress.cache-dir /var/cache/lighttpd/compress/ Permission denied
2021-07-18 23:05:23: (server.c.1472) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

My apologies for this. Thanks for helping to clear this up so quickly.