Over the weekend I decided to bite the bullet and move my domains from an Apache setup with Slicehost over to a peppier lighttpd server with Linode. All of my web apps transitioned to the new configuration easily (including WordPress) with a little lighttpd.conf magic, but I had a hard time getting Lessn to work nicely. I tried url.rewrites and url.redirects in all sorts of combinations, but was never able to find a solution for passing the token variable directly. Ultimately I decided to go an easier route and put in a minor hack into Lessn itself.
First, here’s what the related portion of my lighttpd.conf file looks like. We’re just replicating what Lessn’s own .htaccess file tells Apache to do.
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/g/-/" {
server.error-handler-404 = "/g/-/index.php"
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/g/" {
server.error-handler-404 = "/g/index.php"
}Important – I have my Lessn installation located at /g, so you’ll want to tweak these rules to match wherever you installed yours.
Now open up Lessn’s /index.php. Beneath the includes we’ll be adding a few lines to grab the token from the request uri, like so:
include('-/config.php');
include('-/db.php');
if(!isset($_GET['token'])) {
if(isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$_GET['token'] = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],
strrpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/') + 1);
}
}There you go: a functioning instance of Lessn on lighttpd. Enjoy.
Tags: lessn, lighttpd, Shaun Inman
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