How would I set up my lighttpd.conf to serve a fastcgi app on a particular evhost virtual host?

Question

I have

evhost.path-pattern = "/home/lighttpd/vhosts/%2/public"

When this pattern hits a certain host, let's say 'foo', I would like to use a fastcgi server. How do I configure just one of my virtual hosts?

So for foo, it should use:

fastcgi.server = ("/myapp"
    ...
)

For all other values of %2, it should do something else (such as default behavior of serving static content).

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '09 at 04:18

1

Just don't use evhost.

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(www\.)?domain\.com" {
    server.document-root = "/foo/bar/baz"
    fastcgi.server = (
        "..."
        ),
    )
}

answered Aug 13 '09 at 04:18

rodjek

Never quite understood why evhosts was ever created when simple vhosts + some regex does the job 10x easier. – David Rickman Aug 13 '09 at 05:33
The only real use I've found for it is the one in the documentation, per user subdomains. For everything else, I just use the above. – rodjek Aug 13 '09 at 05:59
Obviously, I can do that, but I have like 10 sites serving parked pages, and I'd prefer to not have to manually keep track of them all. – Instance Hunter Aug 13 '09 at 22:51
I suppose this is the only option. – Instance Hunter Aug 20 '09 at 01:26

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