Lighttpd

aliases work without conditionals too. please add debug.log-request-handling = "enable" and post the output to the error log for the non working case.

access.log:

127.0.0.1 localhost - [10/Sep/2007:17:59:08 +0100] "GET /wiki/robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 345 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)" 

error.log:

2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.205) -- splitting Request-URI 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.206) Request-URI  :  /wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.207) URI-scheme   :  http 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.208) URI-authority:  localhost 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.209) URI-path     :  /wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.210) URI-query    :   
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.260) -- sanatising URI 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.261) URI-path     :  /wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (mod_access.c.135) -- mod_access_uri_handler called 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.375) -- before doc_root 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.376) Doc-Root     : /var/www/ 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.377) Rel-Path     : /wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.378) Path         :  
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.426) -- after doc_root 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.427) Doc-Root     : /var/www/ 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.428) Rel-Path     : /wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.429) Path         : /var/www/wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.446) -- logical -> physical 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.447) Doc-Root     : /var/www/ 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.448) Rel-Path     : /wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.449) Path         : /var/www/wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.466) -- handling physical path 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.467) Path         : /var/www/wiki/robots.txt 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.523) -- file not found 
2007-09-10 17:59:08: (response.c.524) Path         : /var/www/wiki/robots.txt 

-- kosciuszkiewicz

1. can you join #lighttpd on irc.freenode.net?
2. we would need your full config to see whats wrong.

I observe the same. Wrapping URL in some condition makes it magically work. Maybe it is related to having plain and conditional redirection. I am running lighttpd on Debian Testing and used a copy of their debian docs alias sample to write my own. Without the localhost condition it would not redirect. Also the sample config does not enable the alias modules o it dies not work at all until it is mannually enabled :s

hramrach: this issue was filed for lighttpd 1.5.0. What version of lighttpd are you using? Is it 1.4.39 from Debian Testing? More information is needed, including your config.

There have been some improvements made to config processing since 1.4.39, and these changes will be in the next release of lighttpd (1.4.40, not yet released). If you are able to do so, you might build and test that to see if your issue has been resolved.

If not, we can do nothing more here until you help provide instructions how to reproduce this issue. (Don't assume that everyone uses Debian Testing)

The issue reported here is possibly a limitation in lighttpd config merging that differs from end-user expectations.
Please see the following explanations:
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2597
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/boards/2/topics/6541?r=6543#message-6543

gstrauss wrote:

The issue reported here is possibly a limitation in lighttpd config merging that differs from end-user expectations.
Please see the following explanations:
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2597
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/boards/2/topics/6541?r=6543#message-6543

Indeed, this is the issue I am seeing.

Thanks for the explanation.