Lighttpd

hi can you post your lighttpd.conf file as i have a similar issue.
thanks

For what refers to virtual hosts section:

$HTTP["host"] == "www.nerdpride.org" {
    server.document-root = "/var/www/www.nerdpride.org" 

}

$HTTP["host"] == "vps20.vz20.ramhost.us" {
    server.document-root = "/var/www/vps20.vz20.ramhost.us" 

}

## End Virtual hosts

## a static document-root, for virtual-hosting take look at the
## server.virtual-* options
server.document-root       = "/var/www/" 

Any hint?

Try this:

$HTTP["host"] !~ "^(www\.nerdpride\.org|vps20\.vz20\.ramhost\.us)(:\d+)?$" {
   url.access-deny = ("")
}

It checks if the host is neither of the ones you defined and if true denies access to the server (error page 403).

that's good. Anyway, that regexp would scale with respect to the number of virtual hosts.

Maybe blocking access when host is IP number would work?

Just use mod_simple_vhost:

http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModSimpleVhost

You can specify a default-host that is served if no valid vhost is requested (which is the case if you call the server using it's IP).

Cheers,
Fabian

In the ending section it says:

You do not need to use two entries for example.com and www.example.com. The following syntax will act as a catch all for both example.com and any subdomains under it:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.com$" {
    ...
}

(Doesn't work for you? If you're not running on the default port, $HTTP["host"] will have the port number appended and the above reg-ex won't match it, since the trailing "$" means "the-string-ends-this-way".)

So for example, if I put smtp.mydomain.net I will get presented with mydomain.net/ directory contents, which is something that I don't want (I'd like www.mydomain.net only access)

"you dont need to"

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www\.mydomain\.net|mydomain\.net)$" {
  ...
}

Just configure it properly and you're ready to go..