Drupal and lighttpd mod_rewrite settings

2011-08-25 (Last Modified: 2011-08-25)

Lighttpd is awesome and very fast webserver. But has one big disadvantage – is not reading apache .htaccess files with rewrite settings. Unfortunatley you need to create them manually in config file. How? Examples are below:

url.rewrite-final = (
    "^/([^.?]*(\.xml|\.html)?)(\?(.+))?$" => "/index.php?q=$1&$4"
)

and when Drupal is not in root directory:

url.rewrite-final = (
    "^/drupal/([^.?]*(\.xml|\.html)?)(\?(.+))?$" => "/drupal/index.php?q=$1&$4"
)