I have been moving some of my sites around and the turn came to my blog. Since I have decided to try
lighttpd on my new server I was wondering how easy would it be to setup
Serendipity on it.
Well the basic install went pretty smoothly, but I wanted, of course, to use "friendly" URLs. For that Serendipity supplies .htaccess file with Apache mod_rewrite rules. With a little bit of effort it was possible for me to convert those into rewrite rules that lighttpd would understand:
# Serendipidy rewrites
url.rewrite-once = (
"(archives/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z\._!;,\+\-]+\.html)" => "index.php?/$1",
"(authors/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z\._!;,\+\-]+)" => "index.php?/$1",
"(feeds/categories/([0-9;]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z\._!;,\+\-]+\.rss)" => "index.php?/$1",
"(feeds/authors/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z\._!;,\+\-]+\.rss)" => "index.php?/$1",
"(categories/([0-9;]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z\._!;,\+\-]+)" => "index.php?/$1",
"archives/([/A-Za-z0-9-]+)\.html" => "index.php?url=/archives/$1.html",
"([0-9]+)[\-][0-9a-zA-Z\-]*\.html" => "index.php?url=$1-article.html",
"feeds/(.*)" => "index.php?url=/feeds/$1",
"unsubscribe/(.*)/([0-9]+)" => "index.php?url=/unsubscribe/$1/$2",
"approve/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+)" => "index.php?url=approve/$1/$2/$3",
"delete/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+)" => "index.php?url=delete/$1/$2/$3",
"(admin|entries)/(.+)?" => "index.php?url=$1/$2",
"admin$" => "index.php?url=/admin",
"archive/?" => "index.php?url=/archive",
"(index|atom[0-9]*|rss|b2rss|b2rdf).(rss|rdf|rss2|xml)" => "rss.php?file=$1&ext=$2",
"(plugin|plugin)/(.*)" => "index.php?url=$1/$2",
"search/(.*)" => "index.php?url=/search/$1",
"(serendipity\.css|serendipity_admin\.css)" => "index.php?url=/$1",
"index\.(html?|php.+)" => "index.php?url=index.html",
"htmlarea/(.*)" => "htmlarea/$1",
"(.*\.html?)" => "index.php?url=/$1"
)
We only need to prevent some files from being sent to the user:
url.access-deny = ( ".tpl.php", ".tpl", ".sql", ".inc.php")
I guess the future will show how many security holes I have opened playing with these regexs
It came through the mail today and its being added as the latest gadget in my collection. It's a Nokia SU-8W wireless keyboard. Much more detailed review can be found here.
During my time at Emini I was using an old beat up machine to build PHP snapshots for Windows. It was only a Pentium II 400MHz and compiling a PHP snapshot on that machine took more than an hour. After leaving Emini I needed to find a new box for compiling PHP snapshots and PECL extensions for the Windows platform.
Ilia has noticed that MySQL have released a new version. I have compiled 5.0.36 libs mysqlf since that release didn't include pre-built windows binaries. I thought it would be the best if we bundled "original" MySQL DLLs so here is the PHP 4.4.6 binary compiled against 5.0.37 MySQL libraries. Upcoming versions of PHP5 are going to include this version of MySQL client library as well.
I have known that I would be leaving Emini, company that I have founded with two partners in 2003, for a couple of months now but I was hesitant about writing about it. I hesitated because I don’t really want to go into details and explain the reasons.