Getting PyBlosxom SCGI working under Lighttpd

Took another whack at getting PyBlosxom/SCGI working with Lighttpd, this time with better success. (I'm still getting up-to-speed with Lighttpd). This is working with the exact same SCGI setup I was working on the other day.

To elaborate a bit, the setup I'm trying to achieve is to:

• Have the blog to be completely under "/blog/" in the URL namespace
• Not get it confused with anything else that begins with "/blog" such as "/blog2".
• Use "/blog/static/" URLs for serving static resources like CSS stylesheets and images off the disk (instead of running those requests through PyBlosxom's CGI code).

This is what I ended up with, seems to work fairly well, and I'm impressed with how Lighttpd makes it easy to put together a understandable configuration.

#
# External redirection to add a trailing "/" if exactly 
# "/blog" is requested
#
url.redirect = (
                "^/blog$" => "http://barryp.org:81/blog/",
               )

#
# The PyBlosxom Blog, lives under the "/blog/" url namespace
#
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/blog/" {
    #
    # Static resources served from the disk
    #
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/blog/static/" {
        alias.url = ("/blog/static/" => "/data/blog/static/")
    }

    #
    # Everything non-static goes through SCGI
    #
    $HTTP["url"] !~ "^/blog/static/" {
        scgi.server = ( "/blog" => (
                                     (
                                     "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                                     "port" => 8040,
                                     "check-local" => "disable",
                                     )
                                   )
        )
    }
}