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== Basic Options == 

 {{{ 
 Options +FollowSymLinks 
 }}} 

 becomes 

 {{{ 
 server.follow-symlinks = "enable" 
 }}} 

 == Accesslog == 

 Accesslogs are written by mod_accesslog and support the same options in  

 {{{ 
 accesslog.format = ... 
 }}} 

 as Apache.  

 If you need logfile rotation use one of two way: 

  * [http://iain.cx/src/logrotate/ logrotate] as it is used in debian package 
  * [http://www.cronolog.org/ cronolog] 

 -- logrotate -- 

 If you don't use the debian package copy ./debian/lighttpd.logrotate to /etc/logrotate.d/  

 logrotate will send lighttpd a SIGHUP when it is time to rotate the logs and lighttpd reopen the logs accordingly. 

 -- cronolog --  

 With cronolog you pipe the accesslog to a pipe and let a external program handle the logfile writing: 

 {{{ 
 accesslog.filename = "/usr/sbin/cronolog /web/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" 
 }}} 

 == mod_rewrite == 

 [http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/rewrite.html mod_rewrite] is more trickier as the idea how it is handled is completly different. 

 First of all we always match on the full relative request-uri that is submitted by the user. That means that we are always using the [QSA] (query string append) flag from [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html mod_rewrite in Apache]. 

 This is example is based on a problem from http://dir.onlinesearch.ws/ sent in by dbird@freenode. 

 {{{ 
 RewriteEngine On 
 RewriteBase /instadir/ 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}    -d 
 # Fix trailing slash problem 
 RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$             $1/    [R,L] 
 # Do not try to treat the following resources as parameters to index.php 
 RewriteRule ^index.php.*$         - [L] 
 RewriteRule ^dmoz.css$            - [L] 
 RewriteRule ^admin[/]?.*$         - [L] 
 RewriteRule ^img[/]?.*$           - [L] 
 RewriteRule ^[/]{0,}(.*)$ index.php?area=browse&cat=$1 [QSA,L]  
 }}} 

 These rewrites want to rewrite everything that is not the index.php, dmoz.css, admin-interface or something from the image-directory to a parameter of the index.php page. The base directory for this match is ''/instadir/''. 

 {{{ 
 ## for all URLs in /instadir/ that are not index.php, dmoz.css, admin or img, do ... 
 $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/instadir/(?!index.php|dmoz.css|admin|img)" { 
   ## don't get afraid by the pattern, it matches the request-string  
   ## and the optional query-string 
   url.rewrite = ( "^/instadir/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" =>  
                      "/instadir/index.php?area=browse&cat=$1&$2" ) 
 } 
 }}} 

 The conditional is using regex-magic called [http://perlpod.com/5.9.1/pod/perlre.html#Extended%20Patterns zero-width negative look-ahead assertion] and is something from the advanced chapters of your [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/ regex book].