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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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  • lighttpd 1.4.55 is the latest version of lighttpd as this time, released Jan 2020. 1.4.46 was released almost 2 1/2 years ago. Please use the latest official release: lighttpd 1.4.55 – gstrauss Apr 16 '20 at 08:52
  • @gstrauss this particular version was requested by the OP. – N0rbert Apr 16 '20 at 17:36
  • thanks for your detailed answer above. As to your comment, while I see that what was asked specified 1.4.46, I commented because the choice is short-sighted. lighttpd 1.4.55 should be used instead of earlier versions because there have been *security* and other bug fixes in the *9 releases* and *565 commits* since lighttpd 1.4.46 was released 2 1/2 years ago. To overlook the version discrepancy would be irresponsible. – gstrauss Apr 17 '20 at 09:30