HowTos¶

A collection of How To do ... snippets:

• HowToSimpleSSL
• How to redirect URLs: redirect "www.example.com" to "example.com" (or example.net to example.com)
• How to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS
• HowToAllowAccessToOnlyCertainFileTypes
• Use multiple userfiles to authenticate different parts of website

• Migrating from Apache Tips
• Migrating .htaccess functionality to lighttpd
• Setup a secured Lighttpd/PHP5/MySQL server
• Fighting Deep Linking
• eruby for lighttpd
• HowToSupportConfigurationPerVirtualHost

• Handy External Spawning FastCGI PHP Processes in FreeBSD
• htaccess php_* directives
• suExec for lighttpd
• suEXEC for lighttpd
• Setup FastCGI and PHP with individual user permissions
• HowToRestartLocalBackendWithoutDowntime
• How to set up lighttpd with multiple load balance fastcgi backends (fairly complete with examples)

• HowToRewriteForPMWiki
• HowToRewriteForDokuWiki
• Setup Trac
• Using Lighttpd with Coral Cache
• Setting up Lighttpd and AWStats
• HOWTO Integrate Lighttpd to fail2ban

• Installing on OSX
• Installing on FreeBSD with PHP support
• How do I run Lighttpd with runit