lighttpd-cgi

An out-of-the-box lighttpd image for CGI scripts based HTTP server.

This image is available on the Docker Hub zetaplusae/lighttpd-cgi, and can be pulled from the official Docker registry:

docker pull zetaplusae/lighttpd-cgi

How to use this image

Run directly

docker run -d -p 80:80 -v "$PWD":/var/www/cgi-bin zetaplusae/lighttpd-cgi

By running the command above, a HTTP server will be started on port 80. It will serve requests by executing CGI scripts on the same path as the one located under the /var/www/cgi-bin directory, which can be mounted externally. For instance, http://hostname/hello.sh will be served by /var/www/cgi-bin/hello.sh.

Build an image

Copy all your CGI scripts to the cgi-bin directory.

FROM zetaplusae/lighttpd-cgi
COPY ./cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/

Configuration

The configuration file lighttpd.conf is located on /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. To customize the configuration, COPY your configuration to that path.

COPY ./your-lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Or, instead of overwriting the main configuration file, you can copy a configuration to the directory /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/, where all files having suffix .conf will be included automatically.

See the lighttpd configuration wiki for more information.

License