Comments on: Clean URLs (Permalinks) for WordPress on Lighttpd

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:09:09 +0000

Great idea. Nice and simple. A lot less hassle than I had to go through with Drupal.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:10:26 +0000

Thank you!!!, it works great !!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:21:38 +0000

Super Thanks, works great! the only difference was i had to Uncomment a line in my lighttpd.config instead of appending it

server.modules = (“mod_redirect”)

By: Wordpress, permalinks and lighthttpd | PLEECH!

Wordpress, permalinks and lighthttpd | PLEECH! — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:34:09 +0000

[...] I was going to write a longer tutorial on how to do it, but Guy Rutenberg said it all here. The comments are also worth [...]

By: James Little

James Little — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:02:46 +0000

Awesome! Works great for me thanks for the tip!

By: Whut McGuff

Whut McGuff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:37:34 +0000

Thanks for this, but it didn’t work for me as-is. Instead I had to add a ‘?’ to the end of the index.php..

url.rewrite = (
“^/(.*)\.(.+)$” => “/$0″,
“^/(.+)/?$” => “/index.php?/$1″
)

This is just for anyone who googles this page and has the same problem

By: Denis

Denis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:10:13 +0000

Guy,
Statements

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

and

“^/(.+)/?$” => “/index.php/$1″

are actually not equvalent. RewriteRule does not append requested URL to index.php, but simply forwards the request to index.php. So the actual equivalent would be

“^/(.*)/?$” => “/index.php”

My guess is that WordPress examines $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] to get to the original URL.

By: Regular Expressions Revisited « A Path Less Taken

Regular Expressions Revisited « A Path Less Taken — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:34:24 +0000

[...] with the URL re-writing. I found several sites that explained what was going on with LightTPD. Guy Rutenberg’s Blog is one that offered a solution, although the solution did not work for me. It was Lullabot.com that [...]

By: More Pie Media

More Pie Media — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:02:44 +0000

Lighttpd Rewrite Rules for Pretty Permalinks…

What are Re-Write Rules?
Re-write rules are instructions given to your web-server that enable you to manipulate URLs in many different ways, on the fly. In apache the module that handles the Rewrite rules, called mod_rewrite, deals with the URL manip…

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:17:42 +0000

Hi Dave,

I’m familiar with the method suggestted in r00tshell. While changing the 404 error handler works, I find it the wrong tool for the job, things like mod_rewrite exist so we don’t have to make weird 404 handling hacks.

You can drive a nail using a big wrench, but I think that a hammer is still a more appropriate tool for the job.