How to Support Configuration per Virtual Host

1. Use mod_simple_vhost to set up your virtual hosts in subdirectories, e.g. /www/servers/www.mydomain.com/ etc.

2. Add an include_shell option to the end of your config file:

include_shell "/www/config_servers"

3. Create the file /www/config_servers with the following contents, and make sure it is readable (and executable?) by the lighttpd server:

#!/bin/bash

for VHOST in `find /var/servers/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1  \( -type d -or -type l \) -exec test -e "{}/server.conf" \; -exec basename "{}" \; 2>/dev/null` ; do {
  echo "\$HTTP[\"host\"] == \"$VHOST\" {"
  echo "var.vhost_name = \"$VHOST\""
  echo "var.vhost_path = \"/www/servers/$VHOST\""
  cat "/www/servers/$VHOST/server.conf"
  echo "}"
} ; done

Then for each virtual host, just create a server.conf file containing the options that should pertain to that host; the config_servers script will wrap them in a condition matching the hostname, and set two variables:

• vhost_name : the virtual host name, e.g. "www.mydomain.com"
• vhost_path : the path to the virtual host directory, e.g. "/www/servers/www.mydomain.com"