Installing Habari on Lighttpd

Just a small post about Habari installation over Lighttpd, since it is not really documented anywhere that I could find.

I will assume that you know how to run php scripts on your server, and start from there. So once you have unpacked Habari files in say /home/seld/domain.com/, all you need to do is add the following to your lighttpd.conf file :

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www\.)?domain\.com$" { 
    server.document-root =  "/home/seld/domain.com" 
    url.rewrite-once =  ( 
        "^/(?!scripts/|3rdparty/|system/|doc/)(.*)$" =>  "/index.php" 
    ) 
}

With this setup, your blog must lie in the top level directory ( http://domain.com/ ), should you want to install it in a subdirectory, you need to add it to the url rewrite, for example to install in http://domain.com/blog/ you would need to replace line 4 with :

"^/blog/(?!scripts/|3rdparty/|system/|doc/)(.*)$" =>  "/blog/index.php"

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August 02, 2008 // Web

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