Lighttpd

Blosxom Configuration for Lighttpd¶

This is a virtual host setting in lighttpd.conf on FreeBSD which works with a clean URL:

index-file.names  = ( "blosxom.cgi", "index.shtml", "index.html", "index.htm", "default.htm")

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)galj\.info$" {
server.document-root = "/usr/blosxom/galj" 
url.rewrite  = ( 
#"^/([a-zA-Z_0-9\-]+)(\.jpg)$" => "$1.jpg",
"^/([0-9]+)/?$"             => "/blosxom.cgi/$1",  
"^/([0-9]+)/?([0-9]+)/?$"             => "/blosxom.cgi/$1/$2", 
"^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$"             => "/blosxom.cgi/$1/$2/$3", 
"^/index.atom"             => "/blosxom.cgi/index.atom", 
"^/index.rss"             => "/blosxom.cgi/index.rss" 
)
server.error-handler-404   = "/blosxom.cgi" 
}

This does not incorporate a clean solution for /images/ within Blosxom. The remedy is to use the full path to images in the entries.

There are other problems that may depend on -- but are not necessarily caused by -- the plugins used with Blosxom. It works well with a configuration that uses some 20 generally available and home-brew plugins. To catch errors, the 404 error handler directs back to the plain blosxom.cgi which is better than nothing for the visitor.

Caveat: Obviously done by regexp non-expert !