thttpd on Raspbian Jessie

First compiling and installing thttpd on raspbian.

cd ~
wget http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd-2.27.tar.gz
tar -zxvf thttpd-2.27.tar.gz
cd thttpd-2.27/
./configure
make
sudo addgroup --system www
sudo mkdir /usr/local/man/man1
sudo make install
cd ~

You’ll want to test your setup.

mkdir www
echo "Hello World"  > www/index.html
sudo thttpd -d ~/www

The last command should exit cleanly, navigate your browser to raspberrypi.local, you should see your message there.

Now let’s create a startup script

cd ~
mkdir .thttpd && cd .thttpd
vim start.sh

Enter the below as the contents for start.sh:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/thttpdwrapper ] ; then
    echo -n " thttpd"
    /usr/local/sbin/thttpdwrapper &
fi

Then create the thttpdwrapper file:

vim /usr/local/sbin/thttpdwrapper

Contents are:

#!/bin/sh
while true ; do
    /usr/local/sbin/thttpd -D -C /home/pi/.thttpd/thttpdconfig
    sleep 5
done

Make sure it is executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/thttpdwrapper

Now let’s make a config file:

echo "dir=/home/pi/www/html" > /home/pi/.thttpd/thttpdconfig

Finally add execution of the start.sh file in your bootup scripts:

vim /etc/rc.local

And add the below before the ‘exit 0;’ line

sh /home/pi/.thttpd/start.sh