Lighttpd

I would love to see this as well

-- altano

server.document-root can be the first one to go, i think...

Replying to moo:

server.document-root can be the first one to go, i think...

"go" ?

sorry, go with the url.redirect way, not "be gone".

it has been discussed before, we wonder how much config should support this, as it as to be coded one by one.

An alternative approach can be found in #1194 - not nearly as flexible though since it only gives you the ability to change the docroot.

-- Lfe

Replying to Lfe:

An alternative approach can be found in #1194 - not nearly as flexible though since it only gives you the ability to change the docroot.

That would work for some setups but I'm using lighttpd as a proxy server, so it wouldn't work for me.

Or rather, I'm still waiting for 1.5 so that I can use it as a proxy server :)

Thanks for the heads up though.

• server.document-root
• server.errorlog
• accesslog.filename

Maybe also server.username and server.groupname.

Without knowing the source it may be possible to implement it for all <string> values inside a conditional (e.g. as a wrapper around buffer_copy_string_buffer)!?
This would also allow to use it for own variables, e.g. var.myvar = "%2".

i would have done it already if it's easy

support it in var.myvar is meanless, because var.myvar is at parsed not runtime, which mean the var does not exists at runtime. it's like cpp (c preprocessor) if you konw.

but if something support %2, var.myvar will "support" it indirectly:

#!lighttpdconf
var.myvar="%2" 
$HTTP[..] =~ "..." {
url.redirect=("/" + var.myvar => "....")
}

is exactly equal to

#!lighttpdconf
$HTTP[..] =~ "..." {
url.redirect=("/%2" => "....")
}

Ok. I understand. Thanks for explaining.

What about supporting the $HTTP "global" in general, instead of only the matched pattern from the outer scope?

I think the usecase for pattern matching in a condition is the same as if you were able use $HTTP which would get set dynamically for each request(?).
(see http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/9975).