[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#632723: fails to bind on any other port than 80 if use-ipv6.pl is enabled

[Arno Töll]

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Hi Riccardo,


> if you specify a different port via the 'server.port' directive in
> lighttpd.conf use-ipv6.pl 'shell script', enabled by default,  will
> overwrite it to the default value: 80.

I can't reproduce this. server.port is does not affect $SERVER["socket"]
and vice versa.

Consider the following configuration which works just fine:

server.port = 8080
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl"

results in:

# netstat -lntp | grep "lighttpd"
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      9064/lighttpd
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*
LISTEN      9064/lighttpd

which is exactly the desired behavior. If your real problem was, that
changing the port for server.port does not affect the IPv6 default
configuration you are possibly right. However as Olaf said I'd suggest
to go entirely with your own configuration then.

> I wrote a simple patch that should fix the problem
> http://paste.debian.net/121948/

Thanks for this patch, but that's indeed too much magic as it is not
free of side effects. Think of complex use cases where you would like to
use this this script but your own lighttpd.conf and so on.

Also I disagree that a user which wants to run both, IPv4 and IPv6
strictly wants this necessarily on the same port.

I'd like to hear from you what you think.
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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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