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I'm trying to set mimetypes for files at a specific path on my server, which is running lighttpd version 1.4.31 with SSL.

I'm following this documentation of configuration: http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/docs_configuration

Specifying $PHYSICAL["path"] isn't featured until lighttpd version 1.5.0, so I'm trying to specify $HTTP["url"].

I have tried both

$HTTP["url"] == '/my_path/directory_to_affect/foo.html' {
     # my settings are in here  
}

and

$HTTP["url"] =~ '/my_path/directory_to_affect/*' {
     # my settings are in here  
}

If I test my config file with lighttpd -D -f lighttpd.conf or try to restart lighttpd, I get this error:

2015-04-29 14:37:52: (configfile.c.892) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 48 pos: 12 invalid character in variable name 
2015-04-29 14:37:52: (configfile.c.948) configfile parser failed at: ==

Or the same error but saying =~ instead of ==.

What's confusing me is that there are already other conditional configurations, e.g. where $SERVER["socket"] == ":80", and those configurations work just fine.

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According to the lighttpd docs on configuration file syntax, only double quotes ", not ' are supported.

Your observation, that $SERVER["socket"] == ":80" works, but $HTTP["url"] == '/my_path/' isn't, confirms this.

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