Docs:ModVhostDbi¶

Module: mod_vhost_dbi

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• Docs:ModVhostDbi
  • Description
  • Installation
  • Options

Description¶

mod_vhost_dbi is a modified version of [mod_vhost_mysql] which instead uses libDBI (from http://libdbi.sf.net/) to read vhost to document root associations.

The syntax is almost identical as that used by [mod_vhost_mysql] with the following changes:

• Module is named 'mod_vhost_dbi', obviously.
• The username parameter is now optional as some database drivers do not require a username.
• Parameters are prefixed as 'dbi-vhost.' instead of 'mysql-vhost.'
• Added variables 'dbi-vhost.dbtype' and 'dbi-vhost.encoding'

Installation¶

This module is a 3rd party module and is not included in the official distribution. You can download the patch from here:

• For lighttpd 1.4.28: http://riverroadcable.com/~doneill/lighttpd-1.4.28-dbi.patch

Once applied, run autogen.sh and pass the option --with-dbi to let the GNU tools find it, or --with-dbi=/path/to/dbi to specify the location.

Options¶

dbi-vhost.db - Required

The name of the database for network database connections, or a path to a database file for local database implementations (Sqlite).

dbi-vhost.dbtype - Required

Set this to your database type. This is usually included in the DBD file name. Eg., libdbdmysql.so is "mysql", and libdbdpgsql.so is "pgsql".

dbi-vhost.encoding - Optional

For example, "UTF-8". This parameter compatibility and available options depend on the driver. I use it to tell the MySQL DBD to use UTF-8.

dbi-vhost.user - Optional

The username to use for opening a database connection.

dbi-vhost.pass - Optional

A password used to authenticate to a database connection.

dbi-vhost.hostname - Optional

A hostname used in establishing a database connection.

dbi-vhost.sql - Optional

The actual query used to get the document root for a vhost. Use '?' in place of the hostname, for example:

dbi-vhost.sql = "SELECT docroot FROM vhosts WHERE host='?'"