Lighttpd matching default virtual hosts.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

While taking a look at Lightttpd, found that it didn't seem possible to setup a condition that only acted if a host wasn't specified in the request header. Filed ticket 458 in the Lighttpd Trac, so that a config could use

$HTTP["host"] == ""

Currently, a non-specified host is stored as a NULL, and comparisons to NULL always fail.

Otherwise Lighttpd seems fairly decent, and has some advantages to running CGIs in that you can easily suexec them to run under other userids. Apache only seems to want to do that for virtual hosts or personal user folders - not arbitrary CGIs in non-user folders.