Lighttpd

mod_rewrite and mod_redirect depend on PCRE.

However, there is a catchall "" which matches everything and skips PCRE (for performance). You can use

if $HTTP["url"] != "/blah.html" {
  url.rewrite.once = ( "" => "/blah.html" )
}

Similarly for mod_redirect:

url.redirect = ( "" => "http://other.domain/blah.html" )

You can use parts of the parsed URL in the substitution, including ${url.authority} ${url.path} and others. See Docs_ModRewrite Extended Replacement Patterns

Hi,

is there a way to forward port 80 to 443 without pcre?
Maybe with rewrite?

Regards John

johnny, please read the comments above your post where the answer is already provided.

i've tried with:

added mod_redirect and

$HTTP["scheme"] == "http" { url.redirect = ("" => "https://${url.authority}${url.path}${qsa}") }

but its not working

Did you try reading the documentation? Please try again.

lighttpd provides ways to substitute URI parts without needing a regex match (since 1.4.50) (and can be preceded by encoding modifier, e.g. ${tolower:url.authority})

Seems like in 1.4.65 it's actually become possible to build lighttpd w/o PCRE support and have the "" filter working.

Before this version the mentioned short-circuit code was inside the HAVE_PCRE preprocessor block and thus was not working for lighttpd built w/o PCRE support.