Comments on: Intelligent lighttpd directory structure w/evhost.path-pattern

By: Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:36:45 +0000

I didn't like the way I had listed up there. Here is what I am using now (self explanatory I think)


# Set default vhost server location here
evhost.path-pattern = "/www/%0/htdocs"

# If we don't have a %3, default to htdocs
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^[^.]+\.[^.]+$" {
    evhost.path-pattern = "/www/%2.%1/htdocs/"
}

# If we don't have a %4, find the subdomain 1.
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^[^.]+\.[^.]+\.[^.]+$" {
    evhost.path-pattern = "/www/%3.%2.%1/htdocs/"
}

# If we have a %4, find the subdomain2.subdomain1. If we have have %4+, use %4
# anyway. If you have 4+, write a explicit rule for doc-root.
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^.+\.[^.]+\.[^.]+\.[^.]+$" {
    evhost.path-pattern = "/www/%4.%3.%2.%1/htdocs/"
}

By: Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:09:16 +0000

Cool, I don’t need anything that complex. Just my personal sites and a friends domain on the server.

By: Branko Badrljica

Branko Badrljica — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:18:02 +0000

I use varnish for reverse proxy and N processes x lighttpd instance perr site, each one with its own vconfig file and username:group identity.

This means, that all my sites on the machine are isolated from each other with quite strict permissions, so one user can’t get into other users website files.

Works like a charm.