Lighttpd

I am trying to run several rails applications under the same lighttpd process using named virtual hosts. One of them works and the other does not. The other always gives me a "400 - Bad Request" message. It doesn't matter which order they are defined in in the config file. To make sure it wasn't the application i copied the good app and used it twice as follows: "cp -rp Sites/foo Sites/bar". This had no effect. Still "bar" returned "400 - Bad Request". Running lighttpd separately for "bar" using the rails "./script/server" script works perfectly.

I am running Mac OS X 10.4.4, lighttpd 1.4.8 (installed using DarwinPorts), and the latest Rails (installed via rubygems).

Here are the relevant config files:

lighttpd.conf:

server.pid-file             = "/opt/local/var/run/lighttpd.pid" 
server.bind                 = "127.0.0.1" 
server.port                 = 80
server.event-handler        = "freebsd-kqueue" # *important osx/freebsd only option *
server.username             = "www" 
server.groupname            = "www" 
server.modules              = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_accesslog" )
server.indexfiles           = ( "dispatch.fcgi", "index.html" )

server.document-root        = "/Library/WebServer/Documents/" 
server.errorlog             = "/opt/local/var/log/lighttpd/server.log" 
accesslog.filename          = "/opt/local/var/log/lighttpd/access.log" 

debug.log-file-not-found    = "enable" 
debug.log-request-handling  = "enable" 
debug.log-request-header    = "enable" 
debug.log-response-header   = "enable" 

include "mime.types.conf" 

var.basedir                 = "/Sites/" 

$HTTP["host"] == "foo" {
    var.servername          = "foo" 
    include "rails-vhost.conf" 
}

$HTTP["host"] == "bar" {
    var.servername          = "bar" 
    include "rails-vhost.conf" 
}

$HTTP["host"] == "rails-api" {
    var.servername          = "rails-api" 
    include "vhost.conf" 
}

$HTTP["host"] == "ruby-api" {
    var.servername          = "ruby-api" 
    include "vhost.conf" 
}

rails-vhost.conf:

server.document-root        = basedir + servername + "/public/" 
server.error-handler-404    = "/dispatch.fcgi" 
server.errorlog             = basedir + servername + "/log/server.log" 
accesslog.filename          = basedir + servername + "/log/access.log" 
fastcgi.server              = ( ".fcgi" =>
    ( servername =>
        (
            "socket" => "/tmp/" + servername + ".socket",
            "bin-path" => basedir + servername + "/public/dispatch.fcgi",
            "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" => "development" ),
            "min-procs" => 1,
            "max-procs" => 2,
        )
    )
)

-- yon-lighttpd