Drupal multisite, clean URLs, and lighttpd (http://wp.me/pnbL6-2o)

20-example1-com.conf

# The following redirects all non-existing subdomains and the "www." prefix to
# the top domain. Change 'sub' below to a vertical-bar (|)-delimited list of
# subdomains.
$HTTP["host"] !~ "^((sub)\.)?example1\.com" {
    $HTTP["host"] =~ "^(.+\.)example1\.com" {
        url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://example1.com/$1" )
    }
}

# If you don't have any subdomains you want to be web-accessible, comment out
# the above and uncomment the following:
#$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(.+\.)example1\.com" {
#    url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://example1.com/$1" )
#}

$HTTP["host"] == "example1.com" {
    index-file.names = ( "index.php" )

    url.rewrite += ( "^/frontpage$" => "/" )
    # A couple examples of rewrite rules
    # url.rewrite += ( "^/story/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$" => "/blog/$1" )
    # url.rewrite += ( "^/archive/([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})$" => "/archive/$1/$2" )

    # Change /etc/lighttpd to the path of the drupal.lua file
    magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( "/etc/lighttpd/drupal.lua" )
}

drupal-install-mod.sh

#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/drupal-install-mod.sh
# Downloads and extracts a Drupal module to the Drupal sites/all/modules
# directory.

# Copyright (C) 2008 Jesse B. Hannah (http://jbhannah.net) <[email protected]>
# Available under the GNU General Public License
# http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

# Must run as root or sudo!
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
  echo "Must be run as root!"
  exit 1
fi

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
  echo "Usage: drupal-install-mod NAME-N.n-VERSION"
  exit 1
fi

cd /var/www/drupal-sites/all/modules
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/$1.tar.gz
tar xzf *.gz
rm *.gz

drupal-upgrade.sh

#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/drupal-upgrade.sh
# Upgrades from one Drupal version to a newer one.

# Copyright (C) 2008 Jesse B. Hannah (http://jbhannah.net) <[email protected]>
# Available under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later
# http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

# Must run as root or sudo!
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
  echo "Must be run as root!"
  exit 1
fi

# SAFETY! BACK UP /var/www BEFORE BEGINNING!
cd /var
tar cjf www-`date +%Y%m%d`-`date +%H%M`.tar.bz2 www

# First argument: old version; second argument: new version (both X.x)
OLD=$1
NEW=$2

# Get and unpackage the new version and get rid of the package
cd /var/www
wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-${NEW}.tar.gz
tar xzf drupal-${NEW}.tar.gz
rm drupal-${NEW}.tar.gz

# symlink to sites directory
cd drupal-${NEW}
rm -rf sites
ln -s /var/www/drupal-sites sites

# symlink to ImageMagick
cd includes
ln -s /var/www/drupal-sites/all/modules/image/image.imagemagick.inc

# Update /var/www/drupal symlink and remove old folder
cd /var/www
rm drupal
ln -s drupal-${NEW} drupal
rm -rf drupal-${OLD}

drupal.lua

-- /etc/lighttpd/drupal.lua
-- Based on http://www.morphir.com/Lighttpd-Install-and-configuration-for-Drupal-with-clean-url

-- little helper function
function file_exists(path)
  local attr = lighty.stat(path)
  if (attr) then
    return true
  else
    return false
  end
end

function removePrefix(str, prefix)
  return str:sub(1,#prefix+1) == prefix.."/" and str:sub(#prefix+2)
end

-- prefix without the trailing slash
local prefix = ''

-- the magic
if (not file_exists(lighty.env["physical.path"])) then
  -- file still missing. pass it to the fastcgi backend
  request_uri = removePrefix(lighty.env["uri.path"], prefix)
  if request_uri then
    lighty.env["uri.path"] = prefix .. "/index.php"
    local uriquery = lighty.env["uri.query"] or ""
    lighty.env["uri.query"] = uriquery .. (uriquery ~= "" and "&" or "") .. "q=" .. request_uri
    lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = lighty.env["uri.path"]
    lighty.env["request.orig-uri"] = lighty.env["request.uri"]
    lighty.env["physical.path"] = lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. lighty.env["physical.rel-path"]
  end
end
-- fallthrough will put it back into the lighty request loop
-- that means we get the 304 handling for free. ;)

gistfile1.txt

/var
  |- www
    |- drupal -> drupal-6.3
    |- drupal-6.3
      | ...
      |- includes
        | ...
        |- image.imagemagick.inc -> /var/www/drupal-sites/all/modules/image/image.imagemagick.inc
        | ...
      | ...
      |- sites -> /var/www/drupal-sites
      | ...
    |- drupal-sites
      |- all
        |- modules
        |- themes
      |- default
      |- example1.com -> /var/www/example1.com/drupal
      |- example2.com -> /var/www/example2.com/drupal
    |- example1.com
      |- drupal
      |- files
      |- htdocs -> /var/www/drupal
      |- sub
        |- htdocs
    |- example2.com
      |- drupal
      |- files
      |- htdocs -> /var/www/drupal