FastCGI and static files

I'm surprised nobody asked about this yet. I seem to be unable to serve robots.txt as a static file from within virtual host, with everything else handled by fastcgi.

The following configuration doesn't find robots.txt:

$HTTP["host"] == "abc.example.org" {
    server.name = "abc.example.org" 
    alias.url =  ( "/robots.txt" => "/var/www/html/robots.txt" )

    fastcgi.server = (
        "/" => ((
            "socket" => "/tmp/fcgi.sock",
            "disable-time" => 1,
            "check-local" => "disable",
            "bin-path" => "/var/www/example.fcgi",
        ))
    )
}

lighttpd-1.4.22

Replies (4)

RE: FastCGI and static files - Added by icy almost 15 years ago

That's because "/" means a prefix match and / will match every url. Did you try surrounding the fastcgi.server setting by a url conditional?

RE: FastCGI and static files - Added by cababunga almost 15 years ago

Yes, if I wrap it like this:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/robots.txt$" {
    fastcgi.server = (
        # usual stuff here...
    )
}

all within $HTTP["host"] of course,
robots.txt still can't be found and in addition I don't get into my virtual server at all. I understand that "/" matches everything, but on the other hand I don't want to uglify my URLs just so I could serve /robots.txt as a static file.

RE: FastCGI and static files - Added by icy almost 15 years ago

You want the url NOT to match so use !~ instead of =~ (and maybe escape the dot). Oh and a normal != "/robots.txt" would be sufficient too :)

RE: FastCGI and static files - Added by cababunga almost 15 years ago

Uhg, I don't know why I wrote it like this. :-/
Thanks, that was really fast and super helpful.

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