Things I learned setting up lighttpd

Phew - that was an ordeal. I had my YubNub web application running fine on my computer, but when I tried to run it on the Textdrive servers I had to set up this thing called lighttpd. So many things to configure (and the instructions I was following was called "Lighttpd: The Painless Way"). My oh my that was a frustrating several hours. I was up until 2 AM last night, and gave up, then attacked it for about 3 hours this morning, and finally, FINALLY, it works! Yay!

Even the name is pretty scary: lighttpd. What th.

Some things I learned setting up lighttpd:

- Subversion doesn't convert Windows/Unix line terminators by default. Silly Subversion! I would have at least expected the friendly TortoiseSVN to warn me about this.

- There is a minefield of things that can go wrong in setting up Webmin, lighttpd.conf, etc. Things that have to be commented out, little details to understand in the configuration files, error messages coming back from Webmin. Dear me, why can't I just push a button and go?

- Instead of continually buying domain names (openjump.org, meetr.org, yubnub.org - 20 bucks a pop), it would be cheaper for me (free in fact) to just make subdomains: openjump.jonathanaquino.com, meetr.jonathanaquino.com, yubnub.jonathanaquino.com. Gotta figure out how to do that.