12 Jun 2008 06:46

I work on the configuration of the Lighttpd webserver and Wikidot tweaks to eventually run Wikidot on Lighttpd.

The configuration of Lighttpd:

• .htaccess rewritten to lighttpd.conf
• all rules are rewrite-once (like RewriteRule [L] in Apache)
  • mixing rewrite-repeat with rewrite-once is tricky
• standard lighttpd fastcgi php configuration
• serving uploaded files through php program (no more flags/private)
• non-existing avatars handled by 404 error handler on avatar directories

The tweaks in Wikidot:

• sanitized PrivateFileFlowController
• created new: UploadedFileFlowController
• they can eventually become one file (PrivateFileFlowController shouldn't be needed anymore)
• created new: local.php (to substitute private_file_filter.php)
• SSL seem to work correctly

Still to do:

• replace (configure the backend) readfile() with Header("X-Sendfile…")
• UploadedFileFlowController should deal with:
  • redirections
  • html files
  • secure *.wdupload.wikidotsyndication.com domain
  • SSL
  • magic database better

UPDATE: 2008-06-13: done some things, still to do:

• replace (configure the backend) readfile() with Header("X-Sendfile…")
• SSL is not ready, because $_SERVER["HTTPS"] is not supported in fast-cgi

PROPER FLOW:

if HOST = *.wdupload.wikidotsyndication.com:
    URL = http[s]://[site].wdupload.wikidotsyndication.com/files--upload/[file]
    send = 1
else:
    URL = http[s]://[domain]/files--upload/[file]
    if file is text/html or xml+html:
        301 to http[s]://[site].wdupload.wikidotsyndication.com/files--upload/[file]
    else
        send=1
if send:
    check permissions
    set mime type
    send file

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