In this chapter, we will learn:

Suppose that we want to host a lot of sites without restarting Lighttpd whenever a new site comes and goes. Given that all sites share the same configuration, we can do this using the line of mod_*vhost modules. To use them, we may include one of the following lines:

server.modules += ("mod_simple_vhost") # for simple virtual hosting
server.modules += ("mod_evhost") # for extended virtual hosting
server.modules += ("mod_mysqlvhost") # for virtual hosting with a MySQL database

The most basic, but an already usable module is mod_simple_vhost. With this simple virtual hosting solution, all we have to do is to supply a server root for virtual hosting, a default host name, and a document root, like this:

simple-vhost.server-root = "/var/www/vhost/"
simple-vhost.default-host = "myvirtualhost...