Lighttpd

Did you try this config block in a minimal config or in a big one?

Perhaps you have an url.redirect in a following block which overrides the first one.

Without having done any investigation myself, I'd still say that -- if this is the case -- it is a regression which needs to be addressed. Nevertheless, you can workaround the problem until a final fix is available. Just drop the conditional and get the not-admin-and-not-user part in the url.redirect key (watch out for "negative lookahead"). :)

This is the full nested regex for our drupal installation - like I say this configuration works absolutely fine in 1.4.18 - I am not sure what you mean by large config or small config - our config is fairly large and is for multiple installations we use an include directive for each site.

ie

#include all the ssl virtualhosts
$SERVER["socket"] == "172.17.213.254:443" {

    include "./conf/includes-ssl.conf" 

}

$HTTP["querystring"] !~ "^q=img_assist/" {
        $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/img_assist/" {
            $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/(admin|user)"  {
                $HTTP["url"] !~ ".js|.css|.gif|.jpg|.png|.ico"  {
                 $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/imce/browse"  {
                        url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domain.com/$1" )
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

Please can you give me an example of how i would rework this as a fix ? obviously we are allowing for many different rewritten urls and are looking for specific patterns.

In the doc configuration.txt it states that this expression will work with $HTTP["url"]

"!~ perl style regular expression not match" -- does not work

But it does not work in version 1.4.20 and 1.4.19 - I basicly want anything that is not /user redirected back to a none https url.

So

$HTTP["url"] !~"^/user" {
url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domainname.co.uk/$1" )
}

should work - but it will only work in version 1.4.18 - have compiled and built all 3 in exactly the same way - could it be a fix that has stopped this from working ? If so - does anyone have any suggestions how I can do the same thing?

Full config below

$HTTP["host"] =~ "www.domainname.co.uk" {
    setenv.add-environment   = ("HTTPS" => "on")
    server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php" 

    auth.debug                     = 0
    auth.backend                   = "htpasswd" 
    auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/domainnamepassword.conf" 

    $HTTP["url"] =~ "/restricted/" {
       auth.require += (
        "" => (
             "method"  => "basic" 
           ,"realm"   => "Password protected area" 
          ,"require" => "user=domainname" 
      )
     )
  }
    url.access-deny = (".~",".inc")
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/files/domainname/private/" {
        url.access-deny = ("")
    }
        $HTTP["url"] !~ "/ssl/" {
          $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/(user|admin)"  {
            $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/imce"  {
              $HTTP["url"] !~ "/tinymce/"  {
                $HTTP["url"] !~ "\.js$|\.css$|\.gif$|\.jpg$|\.png$|\.ico$"  {
                  url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domainname.co.uk/$1" )
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }

}

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards to all.