lighttpd example.com/support to support.example.com

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I googled around and could not find a solution. I am not sure If I am using the correct terminology.

I am using lighttpd (1.4.33) and would like to go to the url http://support.example.com and have it display the content of example.com/support

I am thinking this is a reverse proxy. Any help is appreciated.

You want the user's address bar to still display `http://support.example.com`, right? Is the `example.com/support` content on this server or a different one? — Shane Madden, Nov 19 '14 at 23:47

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '14 at 23:47

If everything is on the same server, you must setup a subdomain:

Eg:

###### Subdomain settings ##############
$HTTP["host"]  == "support.example.com"{
        server.document-root = "/home/lighttpd/support.example.com/http"
        accesslog.filename   = "/var/log/lighttpd/support.example.com/access.log"
}

ref: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-setup-adding-subdomain-with-lighttpd-webserver/

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '14 at 00:05

nginx have "proxy_pass" to do such things but no idea about lighttpd. anyway you can map the document root to subdomain if everything is on the same server. I'm posting nginx "proxy_pass" doc here, hope it'll help :)

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_pass

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 14:36

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Why can't you just use a subdomain with the document root of the folder?

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^support.example.com$" {
    server.document-root = "/var/www/support/"
}

answered Dec 29 '14 at 14:36

allo

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