# NixOS module for lighttpd web server
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.services.lighttpd;
# List of known lighttpd modules, ordered by how the lighttpd documentation
# recommends them being imported:
# http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Server_modulesDetails
#
# Some modules are always imported and should not appear in the config:
# disallowedModules = [ "mod_indexfile" "mod_dirlisting" "mod_staticfile" ];
#
# Get full module list: "ls -1 $lighttpd/lib/*.so"
allKnownModules = [
"mod_rewrite"
"mod_redirect"
"mod_alias"
"mod_access"
"mod_auth"
"mod_status"
"mod_simple_vhost"
"mod_evhost"
"mod_userdir"
"mod_secdownload"
"mod_fastcgi"
"mod_proxy"
"mod_cgi"
"mod_ssi"
"mod_compress"
"mod_usertrack"
"mod_expire"
"mod_rrdtool"
"mod_accesslog"
# Remaining list of modules, order assumed to be unimportant.
"mod_cml"
"mod_dirlisting"
"mod_evasive"
"mod_extforward"
"mod_flv_streaming"
"mod_magnet"
"mod_mysql_vhost"
"mod_scgi"
"mod_setenv"
"mod_trigger_b4_dl"
"mod_webdav"
];
maybeModuleString = moduleName:
if elem moduleName cfg.enableModules then ''"${moduleName}"'' else "";
modulesIncludeString = concatStringsSep ",\n"
(filter (x: x != "") (map maybeModuleString allKnownModules));
configFile = if cfg.configText != "" then
pkgs.writeText "lighttpd.conf" ''
${cfg.configText}
''
else
pkgs.writeText "lighttpd.conf" ''
server.document-root = "${cfg.document-root}"
server.port = ${toString cfg.port}
server.username = "lighttpd"
server.groupname = "lighttpd"
# As for why all modules are loaded here, instead of having small
# server.modules += () entries in each sub-service extraConfig snippet,
# read this:
#
# http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Server_modulesDetails
# http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2337
#
# Basically, lighttpd doesn't want to load (or even silently ignore) a
# module for a second time, and there is no way to check if a module has
# been loaded already. So if two services were to put the same module in
# server.modules += (), that would break the lighttpd configuration.
server.modules = (
${modulesIncludeString}
)
# Logging (logs end up in systemd journal)
accesslog.use-syslog = "enable"
server.errorlog-use-syslog = "enable"
mimetype.assign = (
".html" => "text/html",
".htm" => "text/html",
".txt" => "text/plain",
".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
".png" => "image/png",
".css" => "text/css"
)
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".fcgi", ".php", ".rb", "~", ".inc" )
index-file.names = ( "index.html" )
${if cfg.mod_userdir then ''
userdir.path = "public_html"
'' else ""}
${if cfg.mod_status then ''
status.status-url = "/server-status"
status.statistics-url = "/server-statistics"
status.config-url = "/server-config"
'' else ""}
${cfg.extraConfig}
'';
in
{
options = {
services.lighttpd = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
Enable the lighttpd web server.
'';
};
port = mkOption {
default = 80;
type = types.int;
description = ''
TCP port number for lighttpd to bind to.
'';
};
document-root = mkOption {
default = "/srv/www";
type = types.path;
description = ''
Document-root of the web server. Must be readable by the "lighttpd" user.
'';
};
mod_userdir = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
If true, requests in the form /~user/page.html are rewritten to take
the file public_html/page.html from the home directory of the user.
'';
};
enableModules = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
default = [ ];
example = [ "mod_cgi" "mod_status" ];
description = ''
List of lighttpd modules to enable. Sub-services take care of
enabling modules as needed, so this option is mainly for when you
want to add custom stuff to
that depends on a
certain module.
'';
};
mod_status = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
Show server status overview at /server-status, statistics at
/server-statistics and list of loaded modules at /server-config.
'';
};
configText = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
example = ''...verbatim config file contents...'';
description = ''
Overridable config file contents to use for lighttpd. By default, use
the contents automatically generated by NixOS.
'';
};
extraConfig = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
These configuration lines will be appended to the generated lighttpd
config file. Note that this mechanism does not work when the manual
option is used.
'';
};
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
assertions = [
{ assertion = all (x: elem x allKnownModules) cfg.enableModules;
message = ''
One (or more) modules in services.lighttpd.enableModules are
unrecognized.
Known modules: ${toString allKnownModules}
services.lighttpd.enableModules: ${toString cfg.enableModules}
'';
}
];
services.lighttpd.enableModules = mkMerge
[ (mkIf cfg.mod_status [ "mod_status" ])
(mkIf cfg.mod_userdir [ "mod_userdir" ])
# always load mod_accesslog so that we can log to the journal
[ "mod_accesslog" ]
];
systemd.services.lighttpd = {
description = "Lighttpd Web Server";
after = [ "network.target" ];
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
serviceConfig.ExecStart = "${pkgs.lighttpd}/sbin/lighttpd -D -f ${configFile}";
# SIGINT => graceful shutdown
serviceConfig.KillSignal = "SIGINT";
};
users.extraUsers.lighttpd = {
group = "lighttpd";
description = "lighttpd web server privilege separation user";
uid = config.ids.uids.lighttpd;
};
users.extraGroups.lighttpd.gid = config.ids.gids.lighttpd;
};
}