I needed to install lighttpd on my N810 but could not find a packaged version. I wanted to find the least painful way of solving this. I noticed that the OpenEmbedded (OE) project had a bitbake receipe for lighttpd. I already have OE running on my desktop so in theory I could edit local.conf to specify the correct machine and distribution and build the package. It sounded to good too be true but did in fact work. I replaced some OpenMoko specific settings in local.conf with the following:

MACHINE = "nokia800"
DISTRO = "chinook-compat"

and then simply issued the command “bitbake lighttpd” to generate a bunch of debs. Depending on how you configure lighttpd you will require a selection of modules. Everything is available here. Note, installing the debs gives some post install type errors relating to update-rc.d but everything will still run.