Both Lighttpd and Ode are quite light weight. Lighttpd is a www server like Apache while Ode is a blog software like WordPress. They’re the best couple for simple personal blog especially installed on your laptop. In Debian Squeeze, you’ll need to tweak something to get it work.

1, Install lighttpd and change the default cgi-bin location

$ apt-get install lighttpd    # install lighttpd, it will run default when boot

The default cgi-bin scripts is in /usr/share/cgi-bin within Debian, but I wanna change it to /var/www, so create a directory and tweak the lighttpd configuration later.

$ mkdir -p /var/www/cgi-bin     # create directory

$ lighty-enable-mode cgi      # enable CGI module of lighttpd

$ vim /etc/lighttpd/conf-enable/10-cgi.conf  #relocate the cgi directory

$HTTP["url"] =~ “^/cgi-bin/” {
cgi.assign = ( “.cgi” => “/usr/bin/perl” )
}

Make sure the configuration have above such section.

2, Install Ode

$ wget http://ode-is-simple.com/downloads/ode_releases/ode_current.zip     # download ode

Unpress it and read the install manual carefully, after that move ode files to propriate location:

$ mv Part1/ode.cgi /var/www/cgi-bin/
$ mv -r Part3/ode_site /var/www/ode
$ mv -r Part2/data /var/www/ode/

Set the cofiguration:

$ vim /var/www/cgi-bin/ode.cgi          #set the location of ode configuration file
$config_dir_f = ‘/var/www/ode/data/’;
$config_filename_f = ‘ode_config’;

$ vim /var/www/ode/data/ode_config
$document_root = ‘/var/www/ode’;
  $document_root = ‘/var/www/ode’;

Set the right file permission:

$ ls -l /var/www/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 12 13:12 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 11 18:18 ode

Q. I’d like to rebuild a Debian / Ubuntu package called foo with additional option. How do I recompile .deb packages?

A. To build a Debian package, you need the following packages / software installed on system
[a] fakeroot : fakeroot package – runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership.

[b] dpkg-dev : package building tools for Debian

[c] Development environment – You need gcc, make and all other compiler collection installed on system. Under Debian / Ubuntu package build-essential takes care of everything.

Step #1: Install required packages

Type the following command
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev

Step #2: Install source code package

First, create a directory to store source package, enter:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
Use apt-get command to install source code for a package called foo
$ sudo apt-get source foo
Install all build-dependencies, enter:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep foo
Unpacks Debian / Ubuntu source archives with Debian source package (.dsc) manipulation tool, enter:
$ dpkg-source -x foo_version-revision.dsc
To just compile the package, you need cd into foo-version directory and issue the command
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
If you want to pass custom additonal options to configure, you can set up the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. For instance, if you want pass option called –enable-radio –enable-gui, enter:
$ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-gui --enable-radio" fakeroot debian/rules binary
You can also pass some variables to the Makefile. For example, if you want to compile with gcc v3.4, enter:
$ CC=gcc-3.4 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-gui --enable-radio" fakeroot debian/rules binary

A complete example – mplayer

Let us see how to rebuild mplayer media player package with –enable-radio –disable-ivt options:
# sudo apt-get source mplayer
# sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
# dpkg-source -x mplayer_version-revision.dsc
# DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-gui --enable-radio --disable-ivt" fakeroot debian/rules binary
Now wait for some time as compile procedure going to take its own time. To install the newly-built package, enter:
# dpkg -i ../mplayer_version-revision_arch.deb

Background:
1, OS: Debian Squeeze, kernel-2.6.32
2, Host: Thinkpad SL510, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller

Program:

• 1, install linux-headers-`uname -r`;
• 2, download realtek driver package and compile it;
• 3, finally reboot

Details:
1, install linux-headers-`uname -r`

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

After that see if there is a file named ‘build’ in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/, if not,then

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686 build

2, compile the realtek driver
download driver package from here: http://drivers.mydrivers.com/download/420-168232-Realtek-RTL8191SE-VA2-RTL8192SE-0019.120/
install required tools for compiling, then just go to compile it.

3, reboot and WOW Cheers!!

P.S: Maybe there will need to install firmware-realtek