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url.rewrite not working at all
Posted by Chris N (Guest)
on 08.05.2008 11:05
Attachment: lighttpd.conf 
Hi there

I am trying to 'port' some rewrite rules from Apache over to Lighty; 
however I'm running into problems. Knowing me it's probably something 
blatantly obvious; but I get a 404 whenever I try to access any of the 
URLs in the rewrite section.

lighttpd.conf is attached, rewrite section follows:

	url.rewrite = (
		"^search" => "/index.php?a=search",
		"^media/([0-9]*)" => "/index.php?a=media&v=$1",
		"^help" => "/index.php?a=help",
		"^register" => "/index.php?a=register",
		"^doRegister" => "/index.php?a=doregister"
	)

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

-Chris
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Re: url.rewrite not working at all
Posted by Chris N (Guest)
on 08.05.2008 11:06 
Chris N wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I am trying to 'port' some rewrite rules from Apache over to Lighty; 
> however I'm running into problems. Knowing me it's probably something 
> blatantly obvious; but I get a 404 whenever I try to access any of the 
> URLs in the rewrite section.
> 
> lighttpd.conf is attached, rewrite section follows:
> 
> 	url.rewrite = (
> 		"^search" => "/index.php?a=search",
> 		"^media/([0-9]*)" => "/index.php?a=media&v=$1",
> 		"^help" => "/index.php?a=help",
> 		"^register" => "/index.php?a=register",
> 		"^doRegister" => "/index.php?a=doregister"
> 	)
> 
> Thanks in advance if anyone can help.
> 
> -Chris

Oops, forgot my configuration, running

- Debian Etch
- box:/home/cmn# lighttpd -v
lighttpd-1.4.19 - a light and fast webserver
Build-Date: May  2 2008 11:01:43 (from source tarball)
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Re: url.rewrite not working at all
Posted by Chris N (Guest)
on 08.05.2008 12:25 
Chris N wrote:
> Chris N wrote:
>> Hi there
>> 
>> I am trying to 'port' some rewrite rules from Apache over to Lighty; 
>> however I'm running into problems. Knowing me it's probably something 
>> blatantly obvious; but I get a 404 whenever I try to access any of the 
>> URLs in the rewrite section.
>> 
>> lighttpd.conf is attached, rewrite section follows:
>> 
>> 	url.rewrite = (
>> 		"^search" => "/index.php?a=search",
>> 		"^media/([0-9]*)" => "/index.php?a=media&v=$1",
>> 		"^help" => "/index.php?a=help",
>> 		"^register" => "/index.php?a=register",
>> 		"^doRegister" => "/index.php?a=doregister"
>> 	)
>> 
>> Thanks in advance if anyone can help.
>> 
>> -Chris
> 
> Oops, forgot my configuration, running
> 
> - Debian Etch
> - box:/home/cmn# lighttpd -v
> lighttpd-1.4.19 - a light and fast webserver
> Build-Date: May  2 2008 11:01:43 (from source tarball)

Nevermind, figured it out -- unlike Apache which matches everything 
after the first '/' after the hostname (or RewriteBase), Lighttpd 
matches everything after the hostname including the '/'. So the below is 
correct:

 	url.rewrite = (
 		"^/search" => "/index.php?a=search",
 		"^/media/([0-9]*)" => "/index.php?a=media&v=$1",
 		"^/help" => "/index.php?a=help",
 		"^/register" => "/index.php?a=register",
 		"^/doRegister" => "/index.php?a=doregister"
 	)

Hope this saves someone else the trouble. -C
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