Setting up a WordPress Blog on Lighttpd with Pretty URLs

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Setting up a WordPress Blog on Lighttpd with Pretty URLs

7 March 2009 15,953 views 11 Comments

Now that we have our LLMP Stack setup, we can setup our WordPress Blog. Because Lighttpd does not use a .htaccess file like Apache does, we need to create rewrite rules and put them in the Lighttpd configuration. These are the easiest rewrite rules out there as there is only one line.

All you have to do is add the following line to your vhost.

server.error-handler-404 = “/index.php”

So lets create our vhost. I prefer to create each vhost in a seperate file. We are going to create the vhost for chrisjohnston.org. To start lets create the file:

# sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/chrisjohnston.org.conf

and then add the following code:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)chrisjohnston\.org$" {
        server.document-root = "/www/chrisjohnston.org/www/htdocs/"
        server.errorlog = "/www/chrisjohnston.org/www/logs/error.log"
        accesslog.filename = "/www/chrisjohnston.org/www/logs/access.log",
        server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php"
}

Now exit out of your vhost configuration file. We need to add chrisjohnston.org.conf to our lighttpd.conf so that it will recognize it.

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Now all the way at the bottom add the following line:

include “chrisjohnston.org.conf”

Exit out of the lighttpd.conf file and restart lighttpd.

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Don’t forget to change your DNS if you need to. Your WordPress install should now be working and have the ability to have “Pretty URL’s.”

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Lxadmin’s default permalink configuration for wordpress / Colors Of Net said:

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# 1 November 2009 at 1:35 pm

Gaurav said:

Thanks for the instructions, but lxadmin has this feature inbuilt in its panel.
I had made about this on my blog http://colorsofnet.com/lxadmins-default-permalink-configuration-for-wordpress/

# 1 November 2009 at 1:37 pm

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# 22 January 2010 at 2:00 pm

Kopi Tribulusdynamic said:

it need to be try. it should be doing on linux.

# 26 January 2010 at 6:34 am

bram said:

hello i try this trick but get an error when start lighttpd:
# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
Starting lighttpd: 2010-04-09 09:35:08: (configfile.c.858) source: /etc/lighttpd/webiklangratis.info.conf line: 1 pos: 11 parser failed somehow near here: [
2010-04-09 09:35:08: (configfile.c.858) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 337 pos: 1 parser failed somehow near here: (EOL)
[FAILED]
please help