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1# NixOS module for lighttpd web server
2
3{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
4
5with lib;
6
7let
8
9 cfg = config.services.lighttpd;
10
11 # List of known lighttpd modules, ordered by how the lighttpd documentation
12 # recommends them being imported:
13 # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Server_modulesDetails
14 #
15 # Some modules are always imported and should not appear in the config:
16 # disallowedModules = [ "mod_indexfile" "mod_dirlisting" "mod_staticfile" ];
17 #
18 # For full module list, see the output of running ./configure in the lighttpd
19 # source.
20 allKnownModules = [
21 "mod_rewrite"
22 "mod_redirect"
23 "mod_alias"
24 "mod_access"
25 "mod_auth"
26 "mod_status"
27 "mod_simple_vhost"
28 "mod_evhost"
29 "mod_userdir"
30 "mod_secdownload"
31 "mod_fastcgi"
32 "mod_proxy"
33 "mod_cgi"
34 "mod_ssi"
35 "mod_compress"
36 "mod_usertrack"
37 "mod_expire"
38 "mod_rrdtool"
39 "mod_accesslog"
40 # Remaining list of modules, order assumed to be unimportant.
41 "mod_authn_dbi"
42 "mod_authn_file"
43 "mod_authn_gssapi"
44 "mod_authn_ldap"
45 "mod_authn_mysql"
46 "mod_authn_pam"
47 "mod_authn_sasl"
48 "mod_cml"
49 "mod_deflate"
50 "mod_evasive"
51 "mod_extforward"
52 "mod_flv_streaming"
53 "mod_geoip"
54 "mod_magnet"
55 "mod_mysql_vhost"
56 "mod_openssl" # since v1.4.46
57 "mod_scgi"
58 "mod_setenv"
59 "mod_trigger_b4_dl"
60 "mod_uploadprogress"
61 "mod_vhostdb" # since v1.4.46
62 "mod_webdav"
63 "mod_wstunnel" # since v1.4.46
64 ];
65
66 maybeModuleString = moduleName:
67 if elem moduleName cfg.enableModules then ''"${moduleName}"'' else "";
68
69 modulesIncludeString = concatStringsSep ",\n"
70 (filter (x: x != "") (map maybeModuleString allKnownModules));
71
72 configFile = if cfg.configText != "" then
73 pkgs.writeText "lighttpd.conf" ''
74 ${cfg.configText}
75 ''
76 else
77 pkgs.writeText "lighttpd.conf" ''
78 server.document-root = "${cfg.document-root}"
79 server.port = ${toString cfg.port}
80 server.username = "lighttpd"
81 server.groupname = "lighttpd"
82
83 # As for why all modules are loaded here, instead of having small
84 # server.modules += () entries in each sub-service extraConfig snippet,
85 # read this:
86 #
87 # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Server_modulesDetails
88 # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2337
89 #
90 # Basically, lighttpd doesn't want to load (or even silently ignore) a
91 # module for a second time, and there is no way to check if a module has
92 # been loaded already. So if two services were to put the same module in
93 # server.modules += (), that would break the lighttpd configuration.
94 server.modules = (
95 ${modulesIncludeString}
96 )
97
98 # Logging (logs end up in systemd journal)
99 accesslog.use-syslog = "enable"
100 server.errorlog-use-syslog = "enable"
101
102 ${lib.optionalString cfg.enableUpstreamMimeTypes ''
103 include "${pkgs.lighttpd}/share/lighttpd/doc/config/conf.d/mime.conf"
104 ''}
105
106 static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".fcgi", ".php", ".rb", "~", ".inc" )
107 index-file.names = ( "index.html" )
108
109 ${if cfg.mod_userdir then ''
110 userdir.path = "public_html"
111 '' else ""}
112
113 ${if cfg.mod_status then ''
114 status.status-url = "/server-status"
115 status.statistics-url = "/server-statistics"
116 status.config-url = "/server-config"
117 '' else ""}
118
119 ${cfg.extraConfig}
120 '';
121
122in
123
124{
125
126 options = {
127
128 services.lighttpd = {
129
130 enable = mkOption {
131 default = false;
132 type = types.bool;
133 description = ''
134 Enable the lighttpd web server.
135 '';
136 };
137
138 package = mkOption {
139 default = pkgs.lighttpd;
140 defaultText = "pkgs.lighttpd";
141 type = types.package;
142 description = ''
143 lighttpd package to use.
144 '';
145 };
146
147 port = mkOption {
148 default = 80;
149 type = types.port;
150 description = ''
151 TCP port number for lighttpd to bind to.
152 '';
153 };
154
155 document-root = mkOption {
156 default = "/srv/www";
157 type = types.path;
158 description = ''
159 Document-root of the web server. Must be readable by the "lighttpd" user.
160 '';
161 };
162
163 mod_userdir = mkOption {
164 default = false;
165 type = types.bool;
166 description = ''
167 If true, requests in the form /~user/page.html are rewritten to take
168 the file public_html/page.html from the home directory of the user.
169 '';
170 };
171
172 enableModules = mkOption {
173 type = types.listOf types.str;
174 default = [ ];
175 example = [ "mod_cgi" "mod_status" ];
176 description = ''
177 List of lighttpd modules to enable. Sub-services take care of
178 enabling modules as needed, so this option is mainly for when you
179 want to add custom stuff to
180 <option>services.lighttpd.extraConfig</option> that depends on a
181 certain module.
182 '';
183 };
184
185 enableUpstreamMimeTypes = mkOption {
186 type = types.bool;
187 default = true;
188 description = ''
189 Whether to include the list of mime types bundled with lighttpd
190 (upstream). If you disable this, no mime types will be added by
191 NixOS and you will have to add your own mime types in
192 <option>services.lighttpd.extraConfig</option>.
193 '';
194 };
195
196 mod_status = mkOption {
197 default = false;
198 type = types.bool;
199 description = ''
200 Show server status overview at /server-status, statistics at
201 /server-statistics and list of loaded modules at /server-config.
202 '';
203 };
204
205 configText = mkOption {
206 default = "";
207 type = types.lines;
208 example = "...verbatim config file contents...";
209 description = ''
210 Overridable config file contents to use for lighttpd. By default, use
211 the contents automatically generated by NixOS.
212 '';
213 };
214
215 extraConfig = mkOption {
216 default = "";
217 type = types.lines;
218 description = ''
219 These configuration lines will be appended to the generated lighttpd
220 config file. Note that this mechanism does not work when the manual
221 <option>configText</option> option is used.
222 '';
223 };
224
225 };
226
227 };
228
229 config = mkIf cfg.enable {
230
231 assertions = [
232 { assertion = all (x: elem x allKnownModules) cfg.enableModules;
233 message = ''
234 One (or more) modules in services.lighttpd.enableModules are
235 unrecognized.
236
237 Known modules: ${toString allKnownModules}
238
239 services.lighttpd.enableModules: ${toString cfg.enableModules}
240 '';
241 }
242 ];
243
244 services.lighttpd.enableModules = mkMerge
245 [ (mkIf cfg.mod_status [ "mod_status" ])
246 (mkIf cfg.mod_userdir [ "mod_userdir" ])
247 # always load mod_accesslog so that we can log to the journal
248 [ "mod_accesslog" ]
249 ];
250
251 systemd.services.lighttpd = {
252 description = "Lighttpd Web Server";
253 after = [ "network.target" ];
254 wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
255 serviceConfig.ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/sbin/lighttpd -D -f ${configFile}";
256 # SIGINT => graceful shutdown
257 serviceConfig.KillSignal = "SIGINT";
258 };
259
260 users.users.lighttpd = {
261 group = "lighttpd";
262 description = "lighttpd web server privilege separation user";
263 uid = config.ids.uids.lighttpd;
264 };
265
266 users.groups.lighttpd.gid = config.ids.gids.lighttpd;
267 };
268}