Lighttpd, virtual hosts, alternative ports

Matt — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:25:50 +0000

In the configuration of our new server, all ports 80 and 443 traffic is handled by Squid as a reverse proxy. 8080 is the “backdoor” that bypasses Squid and hits Lighttpd directly.

But the standard format of a Lighttpd virtual host entry doesn’t recognize alternate ports appended after the tld. Not a big deal, this does the trick:

$HTTP["host"] =~ “(^|\.)getmiro\.(com|net|org)($|:8080$)” {

Translated:
(^|\.) Any hostname
getmiro\ Going to the gemtiro domain
.(com|net|org) with a top level domain of com, net, or org
($|:8080$){ and ending with the tld or :8080 will be processed by the rules that follow.

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Lighttpd, virtual hosts, alternative ports