Ticket #208: example.conf

# Don't allow more than 10 active concurrent connections from the same host.
throttle.max-concurrent-connections = 10

# Don't allow more than three fcgi requests at once.
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/dispatch.fcgi" {
        throttle.max-concurrent-connections = 3
}

# Don't allow more than one /expensive.xml request at once.  Since this
# is a (fictional) Rails request that will be 404 redirected, use orig-url.
$HTTP["orig-url"] =~ "/rails/expensive.xml" {
        throttle.max-concurrent-connections = 1
}

# Limit connections for /big-files/.
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/big-files/" {
        throttle.max-concurrent-connections = 3
}

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/small-files/" {
        # Allow 4 requests to be made per second, with bursts of up
        # to 20 requests in a second.
        throttle.bucket-size = 20
        throttle.tokens-per-second = 4

}
# HACK: prevent lighttpd from merging config sections
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/dispatch.fcgi|^ba29b12f" {
        # Allow 1 connection/sec over 5 minutes
        throttle.bucket-size = 300
        throttle.tokens-per-second = 1

        # If the token bucket empties, ban the user for an hour.
        throttle.ban-when-empty = 1
        throttle.ban-duration = 3600
}