Add lighttpd rules #2978

heubergen · 2014-11-10T20:31:37Z

heubergen
Nov 10, 2014

Hi Devs

Maybe you will add the follow informations to your wiki:
To run YOURLS with lighttpd you have to add the follow lines to your lighttpd.conf:
# Rewrite rules for YOURLS
url.redirect = (
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?$" => "/yourls-go.php?id=$1",
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?\+$" => "/yourls-infos.php?id=$1" )

LeoColomb · 2014-11-10T20:42:04Z

LeoColomb
Nov 10, 2014
Maintainer

Could you test these lines instead:

server.document-root = "/path/to/app"
url.rewrite-once = (
    # configure some static files
    "^/assets/.+" => "$0",
    "^/favicon\.ico$" => "$0",

    "^(/[^\?]*)(\?.*)?" => "/yourls-loader.php$1$2"
)

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heubergen · 2014-11-10T20:45:53Z

heubergen
Nov 10, 2014
Author

That is my big problem with configs like that, I become always a error:
2014-11-10 21:44:09: (configfile.c.951) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 37 pos: 17 parser failed somehow near here: (EOL)

FYI: server.document-root = "/var/www/url.MYDOMAIN.me/"

And thats the reason why I write something new :)

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LeoColomb · 2014-11-10T21:00:26Z

LeoColomb
Nov 10, 2014
Maintainer

(EOL)

Be careful of this: be sure to save the file with LF line ending.

line: 37

Could you post this line?

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heubergen · 2014-11-10T21:16:52Z

heubergen
Nov 10, 2014
Author

Here is my complete file:

server.modules = (
    "mod_access",
    "mod_alias",
    "mod_compress",
    "mod_redirect",
        "mod_rewrite",
    "mod_fastcgi",
)

server.document-root        = "/var/www"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80


index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )

compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype           = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )

# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => (( 
                    "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
                    "socket" => "/tmp/php.sock" 
                )))
server.document-root = "/var/www/url.***.me/"
url.rewrite-once = (
    # configure some static files
    "^/assets/.+" => "$0",
    "^/favicon\.ico$" => "$0",

    "^(/[^\?]*)(\?.*)?" => "/yourls-loader.php$1$2"
)

Line 36 (The error show now Duplicate config variable in conditional 0 global: server.document-root 2014-11-10 22:12:10: (configfile.c.951) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 36 pos: 17 parser failed somehow near here: (EOL)) is:
url.rewrite-once = (

When I delete the Duplicate config variable in conditional 0 global: server.document-root line I can restart the service successfully, but I can of course not accessing to YOURLS.

But what do you mean with LF?

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LeoColomb · 2014-11-10T21:34:42Z

LeoColomb
Nov 10, 2014
Maintainer

What is your IDE? (Notepad++ / Visual Studio / Sublime Text / Atom / ...)

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heubergen · 2014-11-10T21:36:26Z

heubergen
Nov 10, 2014
Author

I work on the command line :)
I use nano.

I'm not a developer and so I don't use a IDE.

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LeoColomb · 2014-11-10T22:00:02Z

LeoColomb
Nov 10, 2014
Maintainer

Hmm... Try:

downloading this one :
https://gist.github.com/LeoColomb/7ab6d2c13df33f7ee00d/raw/9d3402606ea76bfee61be3a57591cb23973badcb/lighttpd.conf
edit it (add your domain)
replace the current one on your server

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heubergen · 2014-11-11T17:48:28Z

heubergen
Nov 11, 2014
Author

Thanks for you work, but you also declarine two server.document-root and obviously that will not work.

With the follow code it works for me AND it will effect only the right subdomain and not the other to (like my code above):

# Rewrite rules for YOURLS
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/url.***.me/" {
url.redirect = (
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?$" => "/yourls-go.php?id=$1",
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?\+$" => "/yourls-infos.php?id=$1" )
}

@LeoColomb If there's okay please write it in the wiki or comment if you find something that is wrong.

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LeoColomb · 2014-11-11T17:57:29Z

LeoColomb
Nov 11, 2014
Maintainer

In fact I dislike your proposal:

url.redirect is for redirection, here we want a rewrite.
/yourls-go.php?id=$1: this way is very old and it's the job of yourls-loader.php to use this file. In this way some YOURLS features are broken.

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heubergen · 2014-11-11T19:16:56Z

heubergen
Nov 11, 2014
Author

My problem with this code:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "/url.heubergen.me/" {
url.rewrite-once = (
    # configure some static files
    "^/assets/.+" => "$0",
    "^/favicon\.ico$" => "$0",

    "^(/[^\?]*)(\?.*)?" => "/yourls-loader.php$1$2"
)
}

is that I become a 404 - Not found
You can see that with this example url: http://url.heubergen.me/test
I can restart the lighttpd server without any error.

What my question is:
What is the right url that forward me to my destination?

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LeoColomb · 2014-11-12T11:59:07Z

LeoColomb
Nov 12, 2014
Maintainer

Have you enable FastCGI?

$ sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi
$ sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi-php

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heubergen · 2014-11-12T20:27:24Z

heubergen
Nov 12, 2014
Author

fastcgi was already enabled, but I have to enable fastcgi-php and so edit my code:

...
# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"

# Rewrite rules for YOURLS
 $HTTP["url"] =~ "/url.heubergen.me/" {
 url.rewrite-once = (
    # configure some static files
    "^/assets/.+" => "$0",
    "^/favicon\.ico$" => "$0",

    "^(/[^\?]*)(\?.*)?" => "/yourls-loader.php$1$2"
)
}

But I become still the error 404 by visit the url http://url.heubergen.me/test
Restart was without any error :(

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heubergen · 2014-11-28T16:34:07Z

heubergen
Nov 28, 2014
Author

I just want to say that I use the follow config now:

# Rewrite rules for YOURLS
$HTTP["host"] =~ "url.heubergen.me" {
url.redirect = (
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?$" => "/yourls-go.php?id=$1",
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?\+$" => "/yourls-infos.php?id=$1" )
}

Only to use with lighttpd 1.4.35 or newer.

Thanks for your help @LeoColomb, I will close this issue now.

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LeoColomb · 2014-11-28T16:46:07Z

LeoColomb
Nov 28, 2014
Maintainer

@heubergen Thanks a lot for your feedback and your tests!

Nevertheless, I prefer to keep this issue opened because the solution isn't adequate to the current YOURLS behavior.

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gsdefender · 2016-04-24T18:22:13Z

gsdefender
Apr 24, 2016

Hi,
I have found that the rewrite rules found here work OK.
As I have enabled the dash support plugin, I had to add the dash to the set of matching characters.

url.rewrite-once = (
    "^/([0-9A-Za-z-]+)?$" => "/yourls-go.php?id=$1",
    "^/([0-9A-Za-z-]+)?\+$" => "/yourls-infos.php?id=$1"
)

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okoestner · 2018-05-17T19:22:22Z

okoestner
May 17, 2018

I have to re-open that... I am running yourls 1.7.2 and the latest lighhtpd.
My vhost section looks like this:

$HTTP["host"] == "go.server.com" {
server.document-root = "/var/www/go.server.com"
url.redirect = (
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?$" => "/yourls-go.php?id=$1",
"^/([0-9A-Za-z]+)?+$" => "/yourls-infos.php?id=$1"
)
}

Unfortunately all other vhost will also be redirected to "/yours...". Any idea?

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jaquer · 2019-01-30T04:50:19Z

jaquer
Jan 30, 2019

@okoestner: I know your request is old, but I believe it's because you are using redirect instead of rewrite.

Back to the original issue, I wanted to keep the functionality as close to the Apache one, and so far this seems to work for me:

url.rewrite-if-not-file += (
  "^/$" => "$0",
  "^/admin/.*$" => "$0",
  "^/.*$" => "/yourls-loader.php"
)

The if-not-file takes care of anything under the css, images and js directories, the ^/$ entry stops a redirect loop, ^/admin/.*$ lets anything under admin pass untouched, and finally ^/.*$ duplicates the behavior of the official .htaccess file, as far as I can tell. It even handles the /robots.txt and /favicon.ico special requests properly.

I'm using lighttpd-1.4.49. Hope it helps somebody out there.

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okoestner · 2020-10-01T21:24:58Z

okoestner
Oct 1, 2020

One Covid pandemy later...
Sorry, since the last answer did not solve my issue I postponed that to later. And later is now ;)

The base URL (like go.server.com) works. Even the /admin URL works.
But if I try to redirect with sth. like "go.server.com/fun" which was successfully written to the database I will not be redirected successfully.
Instead I can see the following error message in the log file:

2020-10-01 23:11:17: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: The gmp or bcmath extension must be installed to read this database. in /mnt/nas/maschine/www/go.server.com/includes/vendor/maxmind-db/reader/src/MaxMind/Db/Reader/Decoder.php:295

Any idea?

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dgw · 2020-10-01T21:48:43Z

dgw
Oct 1, 2020
Maintainer

The error message tells you what's missing. Install either gmp or bcmath PHP extension.

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okoestner · 2020-10-01T21:54:05Z

okoestner
Oct 1, 2020

The error message tells you what's missing. Install either gmp or bcmath PHP extension.

But how? How do I determine what is missing? And how can I install it?

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dgw · 2020-10-01T22:54:52Z

dgw
Oct 1, 2020
Maintainer

Both of those extensions are missing. You need at least one of them. How to install depends on your platform/OS, how PHP itself was installed, etc.

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okoestner · 2020-10-03T14:05:52Z

okoestner
Oct 3, 2020

Thanks a lot, "dgw".
I installed both needed packages and everything works fine, now!

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