Lighttpd

= FAQs =

Where to get help?

IRC: [http://www.freenode.net/ freenode], channel [irc://irc.freenode.net/lighttpd #lighttpd]

Mailing list: [http://lighttpd.net/documentation/ details], [http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd archive].

General

=== Filenames with + in them work fine in Apache, but not in lighttpd ===

The + represents a ' ' (space) in URLs. Apache circumvents the missing URI escaping and tries to find the file with a '+' if the one with the ' ' could not be found.

Solution: Always escape URIs. In php you have [http://www.php.net/urlencode urlencode].

=== How do I bind to more than one address? ===

Use server.bind and server.port to bind to the first port and then the $SERVER["socket"] conditional to bind to the rest (it will 'magically' bind to the specified socket).

Example that exposes /server-status to an internal IP only (note that it's perfectly valid to leave the body of the conditional empty): {{{
server.port = 80
server.bind = "192.0.2.1"

$SERVER["socket"] == "192.168.2.100:80" {
status.status-url = "/server-status"
}
}}}

This can also be combined with [http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/ssl.html SSL].

FastCGI

=== Where is the spawn-php program/script available from? it's mentioned in docs but not available in the distributed package (1.3.7) ===

If you install lighttpd (http://lighttpd.net/download/INSTALL), the spawn-fcgi binary is installed automatically (to /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi by default).

The spawn-php.sh script can be found here: http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-php.sh

=== How do I exclude a certain directory from FastCGI? ===

{{{
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/no-fcgi/" {
fastcgi.server = ( "/" => ... )
}
}}}

You can also use server.error-handler-404 to redirect all non-existent files to FastCGI (see LighttpdOnRails for an example).