MySQL-based vhosting¶

Module: mod_mysql_vhost

• Table of contents
• MySQL-based vhosting
  • Description
  • Options
    • Example:
    • MySQL setup:
  • Wildcard subdomains with same docroot
  • Per-vhost configuration (not using the module)

Description¶

Note: since lighttpd 1.4.46, subsumed by mod_vhostdb

With MySQL-based vhosting you can store the path to a given host's document root in a MySQL database.

Note: Keep in mind that only one vhost module should be active at a time. Don't mix mod_simple_vhost with mod_mysql_vhost.

Options¶

Example:¶

mysql-vhost.db             = "lighttpd" 
mysql-vhost.user           = "lighttpd" 
mysql-vhost.pass           = "secret" 
mysql-vhost.sock           = "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" 
mysql-vhost.sql            = "SELECT docroot FROM domains WHERE domain='?';" 
mysql-vhost.hostname           = "localhost" 
mysql-vhost.port           = 3306

If specified, mysql-vhost.hostname overrides mysql-vhost.sock.

MySQL setup:¶

GRANT SELECT ON lighttpd.* TO lighttpd@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'secret';
CREATE DATABASE lighttpd;
USE lighttpd;
CREATE TABLE domains (
  domain varchar(64) not null primary key,
  docroot varchar(128) not null
);
INSERT INTO domains VALUES ('host.dom.ain','/http/host.dom.ain/');

Wildcard subdomains with same docroot¶

Insert domain names like '%.example.com' into the sql table, and use the following query:

mysql-vhost.sql            = "SELECT docroot FROM domains WHERE '?' like domain;"

Per-vhost configuration (not using the module)¶

You can obviously create a lighttpd config from a database (load it via the include_shell command in the lighttpd config);
but there is no point in using the same table again with mod_mysql_vhost - just use server.document-root.

Your script should output something like that for every vhost:

$HTTP["host"] == "<DOMAIN_FROM_DATABASE>" {
  server.document-root = "<DOCROOT_FROM_DATABASE>" 
  <CONFIG_FROM_DATABASE>
}

Please note that you should not allow your users to modify the config which gets inserted here, or they just may use include_shell with "rm -rf /" - which gets probably executed with root.

And you have to restart your webserver every time you change something.