Lighty2Go

Quick update on next release

Tom — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:56:53 +0000

Just wanted to drop a quick note and let people know that a new version of Lighty2Go is in the works and on the way. I have run into a couple issues with the latest ports of LIGHTTPD (1.4.19) and MySQL (5.0.67).

From what I can see so far … it looks like the issues might be Windows Vista specific but I am trying to debug them and work them out so that the next L2G version will still work on both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

So stay tuned and I hope to have a new package ready for testing by this weekend.

Meanwhile there have been a few suggestions lately over in the forums about some new applications to add in to L2G. I would like to put some of these to a poll and see if there are apps that people are more interested in then others. Please leave additional/different suggestions in comments.

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

New Release Version 1.3 available

Tom — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:54:23 +0000

Hey All.
I have a new release of Lighty2Go ready for download version 1.3. The new version brings with it a new Start-Lighty2Go.exe file that is very slick! (Thanks Tobbe)
And then there is an update for the new version of phpMyAdmin 2.11.4.
So as always give it a run and let me know if you encounter any problems or errors.

Lighty2Go v1.3 is available here.

New Release! Version 1.2 is available.

Tom — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:12:59 +0000

Lighty2Go has a new release out that has a lot of good news.
Starting off with one of the coolest new features, Lighty2Go should now work if extracted to any location. Thanks to the efforts of Tobbe from the forum L2G should run without issue from just about any path you extract it to.

The next item that was addressed the known issue some of us had seen if you tried to run L2G and CygWin was installed on the PC this item was also commented on here. After doing some testing with some different versions of the cygwin dll’s I believe that I have found one that works fine for both getting LightTPD to run and does not require any umount commands to be issued to your CygWin environment.
Anyone that can test this and report success OR failure that would be great.

And last but not least are the packages that were updated for v1.2:
- MySQL 5.0.50 Updated
- PHP 5.2.5 Updated
- OpenSSL 0.9.8g Updated
- phpMyAdmin 2.11.2.2 Updated

So that’s all the news for now - Go grab a copy of v1.2 and give it a run.
Test things like the any path fix and the CygWin fix and let me know what you see in your environments.

Version 1.2 is available here.

Version 1.1 is available

Tom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:13:18 +0000

So with the help and some ideas from Tobbe over in the forum I have made a few changes to Lighty2Go and released version 1.1. **Thanks Tobbe**

No major changes, but a couple things were fixed/tweaked. The forum user was able to find the switches needed to get the TrayTool to leave the system tray after running the shutdown so it is gone as soon as the servers are stopped and the files are deleted. This is a very nice addition I love it. I also made the first file to kick off Lighty2Go an .exe file and updated some of the directions in the README file. I think this makes L2G a little more user friendly, let me know what you think.

Version 1.1 is available here.

Porting lighttpd to the iPhone

Tom — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:06:29 +0000

Wow!! And I thought Lighty2Go was small and portable….
Check out this post over here >>
http://gothcandy.com/alice/2007/09/05/81/porting-lighttpd-to-the-iphone/

Nice work!

Linux love for the Verizon EVDO USB720

Tom — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:51:04 +0000

Update: Some additional good info here.

So… have you seen the USB720 EVDO dongle from Verizon Wireless? Have you wanted to enjoy some EVDO goodness from your linux laptop? Well here is the way to make it happen:

#1. Use a newish kernel.
I am not sure at what point support was incorporated into the kernel, but for 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 that I tested the device itself worked right out of the box. Plug it in and then perform the following configuration.

#2. Edit

/etc/modprobe.d/options

add the folowing text and save:

# Options for u720
options usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x2110
options airprime endpoints=1

#3. Edit

/etc/modules

add the folowing text and save:

usbserial
airprime

#4. Create the following file

/etc/ppp/peers/verizon

add the folowing text and save:

noauth
connect “/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/peers/verizon_chat”
defaultroute
usepeerdns
ttyUSB0
230400
local
debug
-detach

#5. Create the following file

/etc/ppp/peers/verizon_chat

add the folowing text and save:

‘’ ‘ATZ’
‘OK’ ‘ATDT#777'
‘CONNECT’ ‘’

#6. Now issue the following command as super user to connect:

pppd call verizon

*Optional*
You can add ‘pppd call verizon’ to your startup script to automatically
connect on boot. This has been tested with an ubuntu and a kubuntu 7.10 ditribution.
Works great, fast too.

Lighty2Go Forums are up.

Tom — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:26:11 +0000

So in the interest in trying to keep Lighty2Go progressing and addressing problems/issues that people may have I have set-up some forums that can be used for discussion.
You can get to the forums from either the tab at the top of the page or from the link in the “Downloads & Info” section on the top right of the page.

Thanks
–Tom

Where did the WLMP Project go?

Tom — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:09:53 +0000

Does anyone know where the good people of the WLMP Project went?
I have several links on this site to them as there great work on porting LightTPD to windows has been a major part of getting Lighty2Go going.
I dropped by their site about a week ago and they were doing a re-vamp of the site and things were looking great with the new design. Then I went to see them just a few days ago to see how the site was coming along and I got an error when trying to get there. My first thought was “Ooops someone made a typo or something during the re-design (hey we’ve all been there right?) and they will notice it and be back up shortly.” Well unfortunately that did not appear to be the case. After repeated visits to their site it never seemed to go back on-line. I have done some Google searches to see if that turned up any info on maybe a new URL or something but so far I have not seen anything.
So if anyone knows anything or has any info on where those guys went please drop a comment. I hope this is just a temporary thing and that we will be seeing the WLMP Project back up very soon.

We finally made it. Version 1.0 is ready!

Tom — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:35:25 +0000

Well after many 0.x releases Lighty2Go has finally matured to a 1.0 release.
That’s right I said version 1.0!
Thanks to everyone who has stopped by the site, tried & tested Lighty2Go, made comments, and given suggestions. All of these things have been greatly appreciated and have really contributed to making Lighty2Go a fun project.
Version 1.0 comes with some new wording in the README, some cleaned-up .bat files and a couple new treats in the traytool.
So take it for a spin and let me know how it goes.

Version 1.0 is available here.

Back to basics with version 0.9

Tom — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:36:56 +0000

So… thanks to some input by a commenter named Andrew and the fact that his PC didn’t want to run one of the commands in Lighty2Go, the change.com function/command has been removed and Lighty2Go is now back to a set-up that is more like the first 2 releases that didn’t contain change.com.
Version 0.9 has had; the .bat files, some .conf files and the directory structure tweaked (a bit) so that change.com is not needed anymore.
Thanks again Andrew.

Version 0.9 is available here.