to come up with rules for a particular module I am wanting to use.

In lighttpd.conf I have:
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$HTTP["host"] =~ “(^|\.)mydomain\.com” {
server.document-root = “/var/www/public_html/mydomain.com/”
index-file.names = ( “index.php” )
# for clean urls
magnet.attract-physical-path-to = (“/etc/lighttpd/rewrite_drupal.lua”)
}

In rewrite_drupal.lua I have:
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– little helper function
function file_exists(path)
local attr = lighty.stat(path)
if (attr) then
return true
else
return false
end
end
function removePrefix(str, prefix)
return str:sub(1,#prefix+1) == prefix..”/” and str:sub(#prefix+2)
end

– prefix without the trailing slash

– If reverting back to production mode comment in the above line and uncomment the line below

local prefix = ”

– the magic ;)
if (not file_exists(lighty.env["physical.path"])) then
— file still missing. pass it to the fastcgi backend
request_uri = removePrefix(lighty.env["uri.path"], prefix)
if request_uri then
lighty.env["uri.path"] = prefix .. “/index.php”
local uriquery = lighty.env["uri.query"] or “”
lighty.env["uri.query"] = uriquery .. (uriquery ~= “” and “&” or “”) .. “q=” .. request_uri
lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = lighty.env["uri.path"]
lighty.env["request.orig-uri"] = lighty.env["request.uri"]
lighty.env["physical.path"] = lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. lighty.env["physical.rel-path"]
end
end
– fallthrough will put it back into the lighty request loop
– that means we get the 304 handling for free. ;)

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Given the above here is my question :

I want to know how to enable the following rules for a drupal module called “boost” which tries
to serve cached html pages bypassing php/drupal and the database. There is a write-up on this
at: http://codesorcery.net/2007/07/23/boost-your-drupal-site

Now for this Drupal module to work, there are rewrite rules needed. Currently the module author
has noly provided htaccess rules for Apache. I need lighttpd rules. I have pasted above the rules
I currently have in lighttpd.conf and rewrite_drupal.lua file. Can someone pls help me with the rules to
add to the lua or the lighttpd.conf file to make this module work.

I am pasting below the htaccess rules specific to this module that the author is recommending. If anyone
has any suggestions on how it can work with lighttpd that would be a big help.

# Apache htaccess Rewrite rules for static page caching provided by the Boost module:
# BOOST START

Header add Expires “Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT”
Header add Cache-Control “no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0″

AddCharset utf-8 .html

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !DRUPAL_UID
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/index.html [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/user/login
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !DRUPAL_UID
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/$1/index.html [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/user/login
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !DRUPAL_UID
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cache/%{SERVER_NAME}/0/$1.html [L]
# BOOST END

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form ‘index.php?q=x’.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

if (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'lighttpd') !== false) {
    $_lighty_url = $base_url.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $_lighty_url = @parse_url($_lighty_url);
    if ($_lighty_url['path'] != '/index.php' && $_lighty_url['path'] != '/') {
        $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = $_lighty_url['query'];
        parse_str($_lighty_url['query'], $_lighty_query);
        foreach ($_lighty_query as $key => $val)
            $_GET[$key] = $_REQUEST[$key] = $val;
        $_GET['q'] = $_REQUEST['q'] = substr($_lighty_url['path'], 1);
    }
}

This doesn’t return a 404 by the server if there exists content. :)

The post has been updated. Appreciate your post.