I've started the migration of a Windows VPS to linode.com, choosing lighttpd over nginx and apache to host some sites built on asp.net mvc, and I'm stuck with what I think is a "document-root" conflict.
I'm running lighttpd 1.4.6, Mono 2.8.2 on Ubuntu 10.04
I've configured mod_evhost with the patterns to match this directory structure:
/var/webs/country-tld.tld.domain/www
/var/webs/country-tld.tld.domain/subdomain
and to remove all "www" from the requests, redirecting to the url, and everything works fine for static content, but when loading aspx pages I constantly get 404 errors for default.aspx.
When I set server.document-root to any website (bypassing the evhost rules) Mono worked fine, serving the aspx pages as expected. Which pointed me to think that, when evhost is enabled, "MONO_FCGI_ROOT" = server.document-root is gets mixed the rest of the configuration causing the 404 for aspx content.
Does anyone have experience with this environment set up? I really want to give lighttpd's configuration elegance and simplicity a chance before setting everything with Apache+mod_mono, or use individual fastcgi mappings for every host.
These are my configuration files.
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf:
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_compress",
"mod_rewrite",
"mod_redirect",
"mod_evhost"
)
server.document-root = "/var/webs/default/"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
index-file.names = (
"index.html",
"index.htm",
"default.htm",
"default.html"
)
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
server.port = 80
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.dir-listing = "enable"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
#server.error-handler-404 = "/error-handler.html"
dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = (
"text/plain",
"text/html",
"application/x-javascript",
"text/css"
)
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
### for global domains with 3 or more letters in last .ext
### and for national domains but -no- second level
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www.)?([^.]+)\.([a-z]{2,})$" {
evhost.path-pattern = "/var/webs/%1.%2/www/"
}
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www.)?([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.([a-z]{2,})$" {
evhost.path-pattern = "/var/webs/%1.%2/%3/"
}
### for second level national domains with 2 letters in last .ext
### %4 %3 %2 %1
### sub domain subtld tld
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www.)?([^.]+)\.([a-z]{2,3})\.([a-z]{2})$" {
evhost.path-pattern = "/var/webs/%1.%2.%3/www/"
}
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www.)?([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.([a-z]{2,3})\.([a-z]{2})$" {
evhost.path-pattern = "/var/webs/%1.%2.%3/%4/"
}
# redirect "www.domain" to "domain" preserving the parameters
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www\.(.*)$" {
url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://%1/$1" )
}
#### handle Debian Policy Manual, Section 11.5. urls
## by default allow them only from localhost
## (This must come last due to #445459)
## Note: =~ "127.0.0.1" works with ipv6 enabled, whereas == "127.0.0.1" doesn't
$HTTP["remoteip"] =~ "127.0.0.1" {
alias.url += (
"/doc/" => "/usr/share/doc/",
"/images/" => "/usr/share/images/"
)
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/doc/|^/images/" {
dir-listing.activate = "enable"
}
}
/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-fastcgi.conf:
index-file.names += (
"index.aspx",
"default.aspx",
"Index.aspx",
"Default.aspx"
)
var.mono_dir = "/opt/mono-2.8.2/"
var.mono_shared_dir = "/tmp/"
var.mono_fastcgi_server = mono_dir + "bin/" + "fastcgi-mono-server2"
var.mono_fcgi_root = server.document-root
var.mono_fcgi_applications = "/:."
server.modules += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
fastcgi.server = (
".aspx" => ((
"socket" => mono_shared_dir + "fastcgi-mono-server",
"bin-path" => mono_fastcgi_server,
"bin-environment" => (
"PATH" => "/bin:/usr/bin:" + mono_dir + "bin",
"LD_LIBRARY_PATH" => mono_dir + "lib:",
"MONO_SHARED_DIR" => mono_shared_dir,
"MONO_FCGI_LOGLEVELS" => "Standard",
"MONO_FCGI_LOGFILE" => mono_shared_dir + "fastcgi.log",
"MONO_FCGI_ROOT" => mono_fcgi_root,
"MONO_FCGI_APPLICATIONS" => mono_fcgi_applications
),
"max-procs" => 1,
"check-local" => "disable"
))
)
fastcgi.map-extensions = (
".asmx" => ".aspx",
".ashx" => ".aspx",
".asax" => ".aspx",
".ascx" => ".aspx",
".soap" => ".aspx",
".rem" => ".aspx",
".axd" => ".aspx",
".cs" => ".aspx",
".config" => ".aspx",
".dll" => ".aspx"
)