Lighttpd + vB Archive

[Harry Bo]

Morning all,

First off - I'm not really expecting a useful response here because I wouldn't believe me either

Config is as follows:
Slackware Linux
Lighttpd 1.4.13
PHP 5.2.3 running via FastCGI
MySQL 5.0.27
eAccelerator 0.9.5.1
vBulletin 3.6.4 (yes, I know )

Yesterday afternoon, I upgraded PHP from 5.2.0 and eAccelerator from 0.9.5.

According to my users, the Archive built into vBulletin was working beforehand. It does not work now - it errors with: "No input file specified".

In the AdminCP, it says that the SE-friendly Archive only works with Apache HTTPd and PHP compiled as a module. We have not had that setup for at least 9 months and I know that the Archive has worked in that time.

I'm not in the habit of removing modules from PHP etc - I tend to carry the same configuration forward (via arguments to ./configure) wherever possible. As far as I can tell, nothing in PHP's config has changed.

I have seen it mentioned on here that the Archive uses certain features unique to Apache. This may have been the intention but it evidently has worked in Lighttpd, but it does not work anymore. Does anyone have any suggestions?

HB

[Harry Bo]

Back again, with some more information...

It only appears to be the Archive Index page that doesn't work, other Archive pages seem to work correctly:

http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/vbb/archive/index.php

http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/vbb/archi.../t-145621.html

Any ideas chaps? I'm not opposed to modifying some of the Archive code if there's a suggested workaround for Lighttpd or something

Cheers,

HB

[cyberphr]

The archive system is clearly stated as only supported with Apache HTTPd.
It may work with others, but you won't get any help.

[Harry Bo]

In the AdminCP, it says that the SE-friendly Archive only works with Apache HTTPd and PHP compiled as a module. We have not had that setup for at least 9 months and I know that the Archive has worked in that time.

The archive system is clearly stated as only supported with Apache HTTPd.
It may work with others, but you won't get any help.

Thanks for that extremely useful response.

HB

[GHDpro]

A late reply... but I just now noticed this thread.

lighttpd+PHP-fastcgi DOES work with the vBulletin Archive.

However, make sure "broken script filename" (I forgot the exact name) is not set in your fastcgi config (in lighttpd.conf). It didn't work until I took that out.

[Harry Bo]

That seems to have done the trick, thanks

Some slight concern that the usual Lighttpd recommendation is to enable broken-scriptfilename, but none of the scripts we're running seem affected.

Cheers,

HB