Failed install on Ubuntu

mghaught · Sep 9, 2006

I tried installing litespeed 2.2 on Ubuntu and it failed to start up on. First, I'll say that I'm not a linux expert and am primarily a software developer. Here's the details on the error:

Code:

/opt/lsws/bin/lswsctrl: line 43: ./lshttpd: No such file or directory
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

I accepted most of the defaults especially location, user and group for LiteSpeed to run under. I launched the installer via sudo such as:

Code:

marty@projects:/opt/lsws-2.2$ sudo ./install.sh

One issue is that the installed directory, /opt/lsws, is owned by root and the nobody user wouldn't have permissions here. So maybe I'm not running the installer correctly. My goal is to have LiteSpeed run with port 80 privileges as a system user.

So I figured it was a permissions issue and tried to chown the lsws directories so that the nobody user could access everything. This didn't fix the issue. I still got the same error.

I'm guessing that whatever I'm doing, I'm missing a pretty basic step. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Cheers,
Marty

xing · Sep 9, 2006

Marty,

We are here to help. =)

If you are not root user, you need to issue "sudo lswsctrl start" instead of "lswsctrl stat". Basically in order to bind to port 80, you must have lower system rights. Once bound to the ports, litespeed will automatically downgrade itself to the user specified as part of the installation.

mghaught · Sep 9, 2006

xing said:

Great.

I went ahead and tried that with the same results:

Code:

marty@projects:/opt$ sudo lsws/bin/lswsctrl start
lsws/bin/lswsctrl: line 43: ./lshttpd: No such file or directory
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

Was the way that I did my initial install correct? Should I have run the install.sh with sudo to put into the opt dir? Note, it failed to start up at the end of the install process (which I had run as sudo).

Anyway, I'll post the ls results of my lsws dir:

Code:

marty@projects:/opt/lsws$ ls -l
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 7 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep  9 03:57 DEFAULT
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root    4121 Sep  9 03:57 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root    2214 Sep  9 03:57 LICENSE.OpenLDAP
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root    6279 Sep  9 03:57 LICENSE.OpenSSL
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root    3208 Sep  9 03:57 LICENSE.PHP
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root       4 Sep  9 03:57 VERSION
drwxr-xr-x 5 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 add-ons
drwxr-xr-x 7 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 admin
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep  9 03:57 autoupdate
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 bin
drwx------ 4 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep  9 03:57 conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 fcgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 logs
drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody root    4096 Sep  9 03:57 share

Here's the bin dir:

Code:

marty@projects:/opt/lsws/bin$ ls -l
total 7220
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody root      12 Sep  9 03:57 lscgid -> ./lscgid.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 nobody root   11244 Sep  9 03:57 lscgid.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody root      13 Sep  9 03:57 lshttpd -> ./lshttpd.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 nobody root 7301845 Sep  9 03:57 lshttpd.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody root      14 Sep  9 03:57 lswsctrl -> ./lswsctrl.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 nobody root    2232 Sep  9 03:57 lswsctrl.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 nobody root   54836 Sep  9 03:57 updateagent

Cheers,
Marty

xing · Sep 9, 2006

Marty,

You have won the classic "install nightmare" sweepstakes. There is a ghost in the machine. =)

I have just tested a clean intstall of lsws 2.2 into /opt/lsws using just the defaults, and everything works. My setup is Ubuntu dapper.

sudo ./install.sh
user: nobody
group: nobody
loc: /opt/lsws
port: 80
adminport: 7080

Remove the /opt/lsws directory and do another clean install. Not really sure what's going on with your system. Baffling.

mghaught · Sep 11, 2006

xing said:

Great, just what I wanted to win.

xing said:

Okay, what sort of permissions did you have on opt? Also, I doubt it but maybe there's a permissions issue with the untarred directory that I'm installing from. Sadly, I've tried like a half dozen clean installs. I'll keep hammering on it though.

Cheers,
Marty

mistwang · Sep 11, 2006

Please try

Code:

cd /opt/lsws/bin
sudo ./lswsctrl start

mghaught · Sep 11, 2006

Sure thing. I just did a fresh install. I will note that I did not install any of the php defaults and I did install the awstats.

Cheers,
Marty

Code:

marty@projects:/opt/lsws/bin$ ls -l
total 7220
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 Sep 11 14:29 lscgid -> ./lscgid.2.2
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root   11244 Sep 11 14:29 lscgid.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 Sep 11 14:29 lshttpd -> ./lshttpd.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7301845 Sep 11 14:29 lshttpd.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      14 Sep 11 14:29 lswsctrl -> ./lswsctrl.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    2232 Sep 11 14:29 lswsctrl.2.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root   54836 Sep 11 14:29 updateagent
marty@projects:/opt/lsws/bin$ sudo ./lswsctrl start
./lswsctrl: line 43: ./lshttpd: No such file or directory
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

mistwang · Sep 11, 2006

Maybe there is a bug in lswsctrl, which changes to another directory.
OK. please just do

Code:

sudo ./lshttpd

mghaught · Sep 11, 2006

Hmm, that didn't work as well. Here are my attempts

Code:

marty@projects:/opt/lsws/bin$ sudo ./lshttpd
sudo: unable to execute ./lshttpd: No such file or directory
marty@projects:/opt/lsws/bin$ sudo ./lshttpd.2.2
sudo: unable to execute ./lshttpd.2.2: No such file or directory

I don't understand how it can't see the file when an ls -l shows it there with permissions to read and execute for everyone.

Cheers,
Marty

mistwang · Sep 11, 2006

That's pretty strange. Must be something wrong with your OS.
Is "/opt" on a dedicated partition, maybe the execution is not allow for that partition.

Maybe you should try installing lsws under /usr/local instead.

mghaught · Sep 11, 2006

The install at /usr/local also failed:

Code:

/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl: line 43: ./lshttpd: No such file or directory
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

I'm going to ask the admins of the hosting service to look at this. FYI, this is a server running on Xen but this behavior seems really odd so I'm not sure what the deal is.

Cheers,
Marty

mghaught · Sep 11, 2006

Hi Guys,

I had a sysadmin friend of mine check it out and he's determined that the xen server is 64 bit. I'm guessing we don't have a 64 bit version for LiteSpeed?

Cheers,
Marty

xing · Sep 11, 2006

LiteSpeed is 32bit but fully compatible with 64bit linux if you have installed Ubuntu's 32bit compat libraries. Note that 64bit "anything" doesn't make it faster. For LiteSpeed, going 64bit doesn't help since it's very light on memory. Though we will be releasing a 64bit version since within a 2 year span, majority of OSes will be by default, 64bit native.

Use apt-get or snaptic and find/install 32bit compat libs.

mistwang · Sep 11, 2006

OK, I see.
That's pretty strange that other system usually complain about missing 32bit libraries.
You need to install the 32bit compatible library, ia32-libs and ia32-libs-dev to run 32bit application on 64bit Linux. Our 32bit binary works well.

mghaught · Sep 11, 2006

Thanks Guys,

I installed ia32-libs and the web server started up. Now, I'll continue with my configuration. If I notice any other issues I'll post but hopefully I wont' have any.

Cheers,
Marty

Druciak · Nov 17, 2006

Hello,
I have the same problem with 64 bit. I have a lot of x86_64 servers (AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon) and I have a problem with a start litespeed. I use arch x86_64 because MySQL (and Postgress) seems to work a bit faster (I don't have time to make detailed benchmarks). If I want to start litespeed I have to intall 32 bit Linux (my linux didn't want to install 32 bit libs on x86_64 arch, or I didn't know how to do it).

Do you plan preparing litespeed on 64bit arch? Maybe it won't be faster, but it will be easier to install it on x86_64 servers.

ts77 · Nov 17, 2006

> If I want to start lighttpd

this the litespeed webserver support forum.
are you sure which webserver you are talking about?

Druciak · Nov 17, 2006

ts77 said:

My stupid mistake, i'm talking about litespeed not lighttpd.

mistwang · Nov 17, 2006

To install the 32bit library, try

Code:

[LEFT]sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
[/LEFT]

64bit binary will be available for Enterprise edition in our upcoming 3.0 release.

bdm · Mar 20, 2007

Irregularity in LSWS-3.0RC2 on Ubuntu Edgy

I had been using LSWS-2.2 up until last week and had been required to apply the remedy;

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

I have since migrated to LSWS-3.0RC2 and have had no further issue with this until yesterday. Rebuilding my Slice daily, I was surprised when LSWS-3.0RC2 failed with the error;

/opt/lsws/bin/lswsctrl: 140: ./lshttpd: not found
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

After using the above solution of the ia32-libs, I reinstalled LSWS-3.0RC2 and it worked fine. Thought I would mention this anomaly.

Confirmation: rebuilt Slice from scratch this morning, exact same issue, exact same solution but fixed.

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