Lighttpd, FastCGI and Basic Auth problem

Posted by robbiebow on 31 May, 2009 under geek | Be the First to Comment

I had a strange problem: If I started Lighty with basic auth and a static FastCGI server (running a Catalyst application) I could get to the site first time, but subsequent attempts (from a different browser or after restarting the same browser) timed out.

Fixed this by upgrading from lighty 1.4.19 to 1.4.22. Looks like it was a race condition to me, but I don’t know for sure. As I upgraded by manually installing (as Debian’s apt package is still at 1.4.19) I had to edit /etc/init.d/lighttpd to point at the new binary in /usr/local/sbin/ after installation.