Lighttpd reverse-proxy to that matches an URL _and_ does URL rewriting #web #server #lighttpd

LighttpdReverseProxyURLRewriting

#server.modules   += ( "mod_rewrite")
 
# Workaround to have a working reverse-proxy that matches an URL does URL rewriting in Ligghtpd.
#
# Ligtthpd 1.4.28 cannot perform both matching and URL rewriting at the same time.
# Therefore we need to define 2 proxies, one does the matching and bounce the request 
# to the other one, in charge of rewriting the URL before proxying the request to the target server.
#
# More about this here:
#   http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/164#note-9


#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# $HTTP["url"] =~ /servername/path 
#      => 127.0.0.1:82 (rewrite : remove "/servername") 
#        => servername:80/path
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# Matching Proxy
#
$HTTP["url"] =~ "(^/servername/)" {
  proxy.server  = ( "" => (
    "servername:80" => # name 
      ( "host" => "127.0.0.1",
        "port" => 82
      )
    )
  )
}


# URL Rewriting Proxy
#
$SERVER["socket"] == ":82" {
  url.rewrite-once = ( "^/servername/(.*)$" => "/$1" )
  proxy.server  = ( "" => (
    "servername:82" => # name
      ( "host" => "10.0.0.1", # Set the IP address of servername
        "port" => 80
      )
    )
  )
}