How do I make mod rewrite work with lighthttpd?

Okay I have 2 wordpress blogs and I am using lighthttpd and I used to use Apache and the mod rewrite worked fine but I can't use that now so how do I make mod rewrite work with lighthttpd?

 

Lighty can't use .htaccess files as that impacts performance which goes against their aims.

here's a quick guide on how to do it in lighttpd
http://www.gagarigs.com/site/wordpress-lighttpd-mod_rewrite-make-pretty-links/

 

I paste the

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      $HTTP["host"] =~ "gagrigs\.com" { 
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      url.rewrite-final = ( 
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      # Exclude some directories from rewriting 
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      "^/site/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|gallery2)/?(.*)" => "$0", 
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      # Exclude .php files at root from rewriting 
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      "^/site/(.*\.php)" => "$0", 
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      # Handle permalinks and feeds 
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      "^/site/(.*)$" => "/site/index.php/$1" 
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      ) 
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      }  

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into my lighttpd.conf file but when I restart lighthttpd it doesn't start back up.

 

did you modify the $HTTP["host"] line to reflect your domain?

 

yea it looked like

$HTTP["host"] =~ "narutoforfree\.com" {
url.rewrite-final = (
# Exclude some directories from rewriting
"^/site/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|gallery2)/?(.*)" => "$0",

# Exclude .php files at root from rewriting
"^/site/(.*\.php)" => "$0",
# Handle permalinks and feeds
"^/site/(.*)$" => "/site/index.php/$1"
)
}

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also i just put the code at the bottom of my .conf file...do i need to put it in a certain place?

 

OK, just to check - did you enable mod_rewrite for lighttpd?

Also, try removing "site/" from the lines above - thus the config for your site should be:

#I added in the (www.)? bit below just in case you ever decided to have the www version also point to the domain, so that the regex will check for it
$HTTP["host"] =~ "(www.)?narutoforfree\.com" {
  url.rewrite-final = (
 
    # Exclude some directories from rewriting
    "^/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|)/(.*)" => "$0",
 
    # Exclude .php files at root from rewriting
    "^/(.*.php)" => "$0",
 
    # Handle permalinks and feeds
    "^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1"
  )
}

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This is assuming that wordpress is installed at the top of the site (ie, not in a subdir). If the software that streams the videos is in a subdir, then add that subdir to the exclusion line.

 

Okay thanks for the help relixx I got it too work

 

Cool, good to hear