Hi,
I have included the config at the bottom of this email.
The files are being served from an ext4 filesystem.
I have noticed something odd though. I created a directory which when
served by lighttpd in Firefox looks like:
Index of /test/
../ - Directory
This is just a test.mkv/2024-Mar-03 13:22:24583.7M video/x-matroska
This is just a test.txt/2024-Mar-03 13:05:210.1K
text/plain;charset=utf-8
Notice how both files have a '/' at the end of their name.
In Firefox, if I click on the text file it works just as expected and FF shows
the contents of the text file.
For the video file however it starts a download, but renames the file to
`6GQOZxf0.mpv` (an MS-DOS like 8.3 filename).
If I use wget to retrieve the file I get this:
> wget -S http://white:8080/test/This%20is%20just%20a%20test.mkv/
--2024-03-03 13:38:41--
http://white:8080/test/This%20is%20just%20a%20test.mkv/
Resolving white (white)... 192.168.1.8
Connecting to white (white)|192.168.1.8|:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: video/x-matroska
ETag: "72386044"
Last-Modified: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 02:22:24 GMT
Content-Length: 612101519
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 02:38:41 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.74
Length: 612101519 (584M) [video/x-matroska]
Saving to: ‘index.html.1’
However, if I drop the trailing `/` from the filename it works as expected:
> wget -S http://white:8080/test/This%20is%20just%20a%20test.mkv
--2024-03-03 13:40:38--
http://white:8080/test/This%20is%20just%20a%20test.mkv
Resolving white (white)... 192.168.1.8
Connecting to white (white)|192.168.1.8|:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: video/x-matroska
ETag: "72386044"
Last-Modified: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 02:22:24 GMT
Content-Length: 612101519
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 02:40:38 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.74
Length: 612101519 (584M) [video/x-matroska]
Saving to: ‘This is just a test.mkv’
My guess is that that problem is in the module that generates the listing
for a directory and that the problem is that it puts a trailing `/` on
file as well as just directories.
I use lighttpd to serve viedo files for a kodi.tv box, so I cannot maually
correct the generated directory listings that lighttpd gives me.
Thanks,
Erik
> sudo lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -p
config {
var.CWD= "/home/erikd"
var.PID= 1524394
server.modules = ("mod_indexfile", "mod_access",
"mod_alias", "mod_compress", "mod_redirect")
server.document-root = "/var/www/html"
server.upload-dirs = ("/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads")
server.errorlog= "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file= "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username= "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port= 8080
server.follow-symlink = "enable"
dir-listing.activate = "enable"
index-file.names = ("index.php", "index.html")
url.access-deny= ("~", ".inc")
static-file.exclude-extensions = (".php", ".pl", ".fcgi")
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = ("application/javascript", "text/css",
"text/html", "text/plain")
mimetype.assign= (
".cwl.json" => "application/cwl+json",
".sarif.json" => "application/sarif+json",
".sarif-external-properties.json" =>
"application/sarif-external-properties+json",
".spdx.json" => "application/spdx+json",
".tm.json"=> "application/tm+json",
".tm.jsonld" => "application/tm+json",
".gpkg.tar" => "application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg",
".1905.1" => "application/vnd.ieee.1905",
".syft.json" => "application/vnd.syft+json",
".pcf.Z" => "application/x-font-pcf",
".tar.bz2"=> "application/x-gtar-compressed",
".tar.gz" => "application/x-gtar-compressed",
".a2l"=> "application/A2L",
".aml"=> "application/AML",
".atf"=> "application/ATF",
".atfx" => "application/ATFX",
".atxml" => "application/ATXML",
".cdfx" => "application/CDFX+XML",
".cea"=>
