Edin Kadribašić

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Thursday, April 19. 2007

Serendipity on Lighty

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"

  )