[Q] - here is a good working config for lightttpd with vhost

[hanscees]

Hi,

thanks for the docker image of this webserver.

it took me some time to find a decent config to use and a decent docker-compose file that works.
So I will share them here to save others some time

If there are mistakes in them please do point them out.
I am using a totally static website.

docker-compose.yml

version: "2.4"

services:
  lighttpd:
    image: jitesoft/lighttpd
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./www:/var/www
      - ./etc:/etc/lighttpd
      - ./log:/var/log/lighttpd
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    tty: true

and config file

server.port = 80                                                                                                   
server.username = "www-data"                                                                                       
server.groupname = "www-data"                                                                                      
server.bind                = "0.0.0.0"                                                                             
server.tag ="lighttpd"                                                                                             

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)zanscees\.com$" {                                                                          
server.document-root = "/var/www/hansceescom/html"                                                                 
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/hansceescom/error.log"                                                        
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/hansceescom/access.log"                                                    
#server.error-handler-404 = "/e404.php"                                                                            
}                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
server.document-root = "/var/www/root/html"                                                                        
server.errorlog            = "/var/log/lighttpd/root/error.log"                                                    
accesslog.filename         = "/var/log/lighttpd/root/access.log"                                                   
                                                                                                                   
server.modules              = (                                                                                    
            "mod_access",                                                                                          
#            "mod_status",                                                                                         
            "mod_accesslog",                                                                                       
   #     "mod_fastcgi",                                                                                            
            "mod_rewrite",                                                                                         
        "mod_auth"                                                                                                 
)                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                   
# mimetype mapping                                                                                                 
mimetype.assign             = (                                                                                    
  ".pdf"          =>      "application/pdf",                                                                       
  ".wav"          =>      "audio/x-wav",                                                                           
  ".gif"          =>      "image/gif",                                                                             
  ".jpg"          =>      "image/jpeg",                                                                            
  ".jpeg"         =>      "image/jpeg",                                                                            
  ".png"          =>      "image/png",                                                                             
  ".css"          =>      "text/css",                                                                              
  ".html"         =>      "text/html",                                                                             
  ".htm"          =>      "text/html",                                                                             
  ".bz2"          =>      "application/x-bzip",                                                                    
  ".tbz"          =>      "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",                                                     
  ".tar.bz2"      =>      "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar"                                                      
 )                                                                                                                 
index-file.names = ( "index.html" ) 

and to make all files using the yml file above

mkdir -p www/hansceescom/html
mkdir -p www/root/html
mkdir -p log/hansceescom/
mkdir -p log/root/
mkdir -p root/
mkdir -p etc/

touch log/hansceescom/error.log
touch log/hansceescom/access.log
touch log/root/error.log
touch log/root/access.log
vi etc/lighttpd.conf 
vi www/hansceescom/html/index.html
vi www/root/html/index.html


chmod 666 log/hansceescom/error.log
chmod 666 log/hansceescom/access.log
chmod 666 log/root/error.log
chmod 666 log/root/access.log



##index.html 
<html>
Hi this is root
</html>

[gstrauss]

server.port = 80 # unnecessary; this is the lighttpd default
server.bind = "0.0.0.0" # unnecessary; this is the lighttpd default

unnecessary; lighttpd has default mimetype.assign for common web mime types which is larger than this list

# mimetype mapping
mimetype.assign             = (
  ".pdf"          =>      "application/pdf",
  ".wav"          =>      "audio/x-wav",
  ".gif"          =>      "image/gif",
  ".jpg"          =>      "image/jpeg",
  ".jpeg"         =>      "image/jpeg",
  ".png"          =>      "image/png",
  ".css"          =>      "text/css",
  ".html"         =>      "text/html",
  ".htm"          =>      "text/html",
  ".bz2"          =>      "application/x-bzip",
  ".tbz"          =>      "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
  ".tar.bz2"      =>      "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar"
 )

The sample config does not use mod_access, mod_rewrite, or mod_auth. The only one used is mod_accesslog, and so this

server.modules              = (
            "mod_access",
#            "mod_status",
            "mod_accesslog",
   #     "mod_fastcgi",
            "mod_rewrite",
        "mod_auth"
)

could be replaced by
server.modules += ("mod_accesslog")

Whitespace should be consistent (and excess whitespace at end of lines removed)

Commented lines such as #server.error-handler-404 = "/e404.php" or # "mod_status", or # "mod_fastcgi", should be removed.