Homepage of Sudhaker Raj

I found few url-rewrite based solution for enabling CleanURL in Drupal + Lighttpd but none of them worked flawlessly. Guys, all we need here is a simple equivalent of this code (without any side effect, like 404 header etc).

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

So I continued searching for the perfect solution, and here is what I found. It works like charm on Drupal5 and Drupal6 Another victory for KISS! (keep it sweet and simple)

Content of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

$HTTP["host"] =~ "dev\.sudhaker\.com$" {
  server.document-root = "/shared/sites/htdocs_drupal5"
  magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( server.document-root + "/rewrite.lua" )
}

Please make sure mod_magnet is enabled

And content of $DRUPAL_ROOT/rewrite.lua

attr = lighty.stat(lighty.env["physical.path"])

if (not attr) then
  lighty.env["uri.query"] = "q=" .. lighty.env["uri.path"]
  lighty.env["uri.path"] = "/index.php"
  lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = lighty.env["uri.path"]
  lighty.env["physical.path"] = lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. lighty.env["physical.rel-path"]
end

A similar workaround for Wordpress is suggested here

Note: It only works on lighttpd 1.4.2+

Cheers,
Sudhaker