Setting module path in lighttpd config file

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What is the option in lighttpd.conf to set the default path for lighttpd to look for modules? My lighttpd would not start because it keeps looking for critical modules at the default path, and I had the server installed at another location. Thanks!

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I don't think this is done with a .conf setting, rather it's set when you compile lighttpd. Depending on how you compiled it (say using configure, you might need to set --prefix to Specify your installation directory if you want to install Lighttpd at a location different from default /usr/local/. Other path setting command-line switches for configure: --bindir, --sbindir, --datadir, --libdir, & --sysconfdir.

Using CMAKE, you'd pass an option like -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/

Nixcraft has a nice install how to and there's always lighthpd.net

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I just setup up drupal on my webserver , just for you ;) Here is an example config-snippet with vhost:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "drupal\.mysite\.com$" {
        server.document-root = "/var/www/drupal/"
        url.rewrite-final = (
                "^/system/test/(.*)$" => "/index.php?q=system/test/$1",
                "^/([^.?]*)\?(.*)$" => "/index.php?q=$1&$2",
                "^/([^.?]*)$" => "/index.php?q=$1",
                "^/rss.xml" => "/index.php?q=rss.xml"
        )
}

That works (i can enable Clean URLs in drupal and it seems to work), i don't know how your config looks actually, but maybe first try to adapt my one. You have to put this at the end of your lighttpd.conf The LUA stuff should also work, all roads lead to Rome ;) But I think it's better to keep it simple and not to enable so much modules. I'm sure you'll need the rewrite module more than magnet in the future.

Lighttpd not starting – no error

Test config:

/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -t

Run foreground(for debug):

/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -D

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