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Lighttpd

By : Andre Bogus
Book Image

Lighttpd

By: Andre Bogus

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Lighttpd
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
HTTP Status Codes

Selectors


The features that make the configuration of Lighttpd very powerful, yet keep it concise, are selectors. A selector is a criterion within a curly-braced region of the configuration that only applies if the criterion is met. After the optional else keyword, another curly-braced region can be added that applies for the inverse of the criteria. So the basic formula for a selector is one of the following:

criteria { configuration }

or

criteria { configuration } else { configuration }

Suppose that we want to serve .html files from the subdirectory /xhtml of our document root as application/xhtml+xml and from any other directory as text/html:

mimetype.assign = (...[our list of mime types, omitting .html]...)
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/xhtml" {
mimetype.assign += (".html" => "application/xhtml+xml")
} else {
mimetype.assign += (".html" => "text/html")
}

As we can see in the example, each criterion consists of a value, an operator, and a pattern. The value to compare is either $SERVER["socket...