Hi everyone, please excuse the simple question but i've been driving myself nuts trying to find some form of example of using simple-vhost for multiple domains without having to set up each one myself.

I've used the following



Which works fine for http://domain1.com and http://domain2.com but trying to go to http://www.domain1.com or http://www.domain2.com does not work I'm guessing I'm missing something really simple but can't seem to find any examples at all.

Any help would be great, thanks in advance

with lighttpd simply vhosts, you create a subdirectory for each virtual host you want.
eg

mkdir /var/www/domain1.com
mkdir /var/www/domain2.com

Now "www.domain1.com" is _different_ to "domain1.com".

So what I do is symlink them

cd /var/www
ln -s domain1.com www.domain1.com

Now requests for "domain1.com" and "www.domain1.com" are both served from the same tree.

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

I don't use lighttpd but I did try to set it up last night.

From what I've read the vhost looks in the directory name based on those three settings.

So for domain1.com would be /var/www/domain1.com/www/ and www.domain1.com would be /var/www/www.domain1.com/www

Is it as easy as putting a sym link for www.domain1.com into that directory?

Two ways to do it:

1) The symlink method. This works just fine.

2) The redirect method. I've become cantankerous and determined that http://www.domain.com/ is redundant, so I've now standardized upon http://domain.com/. This also means /var/www is much neater because there's not a lot of symlinks all around.

Anyway, here's the config I'm using for that:

$HTTP["host"] !~ "^(www\..*)$" {
        ## The document root of a virtual host isdocument-root =
        ##   simple-vhost.server-root + $HTTP["host"] + simple-vhost.document-root
        simple-vhost.server-root         = "/var/www"
        simple-vhost.document-root       = "/html/"

        ## the default host if no host is sent
        simple-vhost.default-host        = "default-fall-through.hoopycat.com"
}

# www.*
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www\.(.*)" { url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://%1/$1" ) }

Doing it the other way -- redirecting from http://domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/ -- is left as an exercise for the reader.

hoopycat - thank you for your post, gave me a good idea for what i'm looking for, although i will prefer not to use the URL redirect on the www. but you have give me a good example and i should be able to take it from here

I'm slightly confused and think im trying to create too complex a setup for my vhosts.

I thought it would be possible to setup something using simple-vhost that could capture the domain and any possible sub-domains for any pointed to my linode.

I've been trying to find other examples after the one hoopycat posted but failed.

Can you use regex with simple-vhost?