lighttpd forum lighty > gallery2 rewrite module

I already asked in #lighttpd @ freenode if somebody can help me with 
this. I'm running gallery2 with lighttpd and everything works great, 
except the rewrite module with is designed for apache. here the 
.htaccess

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated.  Do not edit this section)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !main\.php
    RewriteRule .   -   [L]


    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /admin/(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !main\.php
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /v/(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !main\.php
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^\/]+)(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !main\.php
    RewriteRule . 
/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1&g2_serialNumber=%2 
[QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /v/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !main\.php
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=%1   [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

# END Url Rewrite section

already tried to convert them by myself but they didn't work, seems that 
I'm too nooby for it ;/
would be great if somebody can help me out with it

butze wrote:
>     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
>     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
>     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
>     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !main\.php
>     RewriteRule .   -   [L]

I believe this passes the request through if (the file or directory 
exists or if the name is gallery_remote2.php) and the name is not 
main.php. I do not believe lighty's rewrite module is able to check 
whether files or directories exist, so I do not believe you can do this 
with lighty.

butze wrote:
> I already asked in #lighttpd @ freenode if somebody can help me with 
> this. I'm running gallery2 with lighttpd and everything works great, 
> except the rewrite module with is designed for apache.

I know this isnt a complete solution, it works (very ish) but dont
enable the rewrite module in gallery2 as you need more than this to
handle GET vars. But it at least allows me to send "friendly" picture
urls even if once you browse the site it all goes to pot!

url.rewrite-once = ( "^/gallery/album/(.*)" =>
"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=$1" )

e.g.
http://cyberfish.org/gallery/album/snow05/IMG_0042.jpg
(which actually isnt a jpeg :P)

> already tried to convert them by myself but they didn't work, seems that 
> I'm too nooby for it ;/
> would be great if somebody can help me out with it

These are the rules I wrote/converted for my site:

url.rewrite = (
        "^/gallery2/v/(\?.+|\ .)?$" => 
"/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem",
        "^/gallery2/admin/(\?.+|\ .)?$" => 
"/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin",
        "^/gallery2/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^\/]+)(\?|\ )?(.*)$" => 
"/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=$1&g2_serialNumber=$2&$3",
        "^/gallery2/v/([^?]+)(\?|\ )?(.*)$" => 
"/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=$1&$3"
        )

As far as I've seen all the navigation stuff in Gallery2 works as 
intended. The first rule is there because I couldn't get it to work as I 
wanted with the last rule. I don't quiet understand how lighttpd 
determines the $n variables, maybe someone could explain? I worked on 
the assumption that it pulls matching text using expressions in the 
parenthesis, but maybe it's just coincidence. I also left the '\ ' 
expression there from the original apache rules, not a clue what it 
does.

If it does what I think, it's expecting a URL such as:
http://sites.com/gallery2/v/albulm g2_page=2
When would that ever happen?

Does anyone see any improvements that can be made to the rules?