[SOLVED] Lighttpd Rewrite

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1

Hi :)

I am trying Yii out on a lighttpd system and was wondering if anyone could help me out with the rewrite rules for friendly urls.




Options +FollowSymLinks

IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on


# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d


# otherwise forward it to index.php

RewriteRule . index.php

Any help translating this into something lighttpd could understand?

Thanks

Chris

2

Answering my own question :)




url.rewrite-once = (

        "^\/(images|assets)(.*)$" => "$0",

        "^/(.*)" => "/index.php"

)

Perhaps place this in the Yii documentation for others who are using Lighty?

3

There is another way to do it. In my opinion Yii (the application itself) should take care of rewrite rules - not the webserver. So I searched for a solution and found Lighttpd’s mod_magnet. With a lua-script you can implement Apache’s “is-file-available?”-condition.

Here a short how to:

  • Make sure lighttpd is compiled with lua support

  • Make sure mod_magnet and mod_rewrite are enabled in the lighttpd config (magnet before rewrite!)

  • Save this as a new file called "rewrite.lua" and put it in your lighttpd config file folder:


function file_exists(path)


  local attr = lighty.stat(path)

	

  if (attr) then

      return true

  else

      return false

  end

	

end


if (lighty.env["request.uri"] == "/" or not file_exists(lighty.env["physical.path"])) then

	lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = "/index.php"

	lighty.env["physical.path"] = lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. lighty.env["physical.rel-path"]

end
  • In your lighttpd config file add this:



$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {

  magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( "/path-of-lighttpd-config-file-folder/rewrite.lua" )

}

Now it should work exactly like Apache. Hope this helps someone. I may add it to the cookbook soon.

4

It’s a long time ago since this post, but you have forgot to protect the directory “protected” and what is with the directory css :) !?

Add:


$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/protected/" {

        url.access-deny = ( "" )

    }

Sry. My english is horrible ::) ;)

A full example:


$HTTP["host"] == "example.com" {


    server.document-root = "/your/path/www/yii_root"

    server.name = "example.com"

    dir-listing.activate = "disable"


    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/protected/" {

        url.access-deny = ( "" )

    }


    index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html" )


url.rewrite-once = (

        "^\/(images|assets|css)(.*)$" => "$0",

        "^/(.*)" => "/index.php"

)

Greetz Terrahawk

5

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/6977-removing-index-php-in-url-with-other-webservers/

Here’s another way, using url.rewrite-if-not-file instead of url.rewrite-once.

Just to keep things together, :)