Lighttpd

To have a real alternative (and compatibility) to apache I think lighttpd should support exact mod_rewrites' syntax or (worse) should have a converter. Many big scripts use mod_rewrite by default, therefore lighttpd wouldn't support all features.

-- Moritz Augustin

I second this wish. I'm currently evaluating if I can replace Apache by lighty - so far I'm very impressed, but the current missing thing is conditional rewrites.

-- Andreas Gohr

I would also like to see this (what pergesu requested). With this feature I could almost totally replace Apache with Lighttpd.

-- BJ Clark

I'd like to see this too, since this constraint keeps me from using lighty atm.

-- Albert Ramstedt

Although I agree it would be nice to have something that accomplishes the same thing as RewriteCond (although not exactly like Apache's mod_rewrite, which while really useful is also really, really ugly).

However, that being said, I don't see this as a show-stopper. The reason is that it's quite possible to write a 404.cgi that does this for you. Not as efficient as having the web server do it perhaps, but really, the application should be handling this IMO and a CGI-based solution seems a reasonable stop-gap.

Here's my $0.02: rewrite rules should be kept as simple and few as possible as they are nightmarish to maintain, non-portable (as you've discovered), and most important of all, they move application logic outside the application into a config file which is just plain bad style. Granted, many apps are written this way, but that's the application author's problem, not the web server's.

-- cliff

I can't find any documentations about mod_magnet

-- masryalex