[Kimchi-devel] [HELP] Problems with lighttpd

[Ramon Medeiros]

On 01/15/2015 11:28 AM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
> On 01/15/2015 10:15 AM, Aline Manera wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ramon,
>>
>> I found out the following links that can help you:
>>
>> - http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/HowToRedirectHttpToHttps
>> - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21429267/lighttpd-http-to-https
>>
I figure out what was happening. These links are for simple proxy, 
lighttpd only supports reverse proxy in version 1.5, most distros uses 
1.4. For reverse proxies, we need to use mod_proxy_core:

http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_ModProxyCore
>
> I used this links to do the config. I need to understand if lighttpd 
> has some problem to redirect traffic between virtual hosts.
>> On 14/01/2015 12:01, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
>>> Hi Team,
>>>
>>> i'm trying to switch from nginx to lighttpd as kimchi proxy. I 
>>> successfully create the proxy on port 8001, but the problem is the 
>>> redirection from http to https.
>>>
>>> To try this, do:
>>>
>>> 1) Install lighttpd
>>>
>>> 2) Start kimchi, kill nginx process
>>>
>>> 3) Run lighttpd with this configuration (save to 
>>> /etc/kimchi/lighttpd.conf):
>>>
>>> # Variables
>>> var.log_root    = "/var/log/lighttpd"
>>> var.server_root = "/var/www"
>>> var.state_dir   = "/var/run"
>>> var.home_dir    = "/var/lib/lighttpd"
>>> var.conf_dir    = "/etc/lighttpd"
>>> var.vhosts_dir  = server_root + "/vhosts"
>>> var.cache_dir   = "/var/cache/lighttpd"
>>> var.socket_dir  = home_dir + "/sockets"
>>>
>>> # Server settings
>>> server.username  = "lighttpd"
>>> server.groupname = "lighttpd"
>>> server.document-root = server_root + "/lighttpd"
>>> server.pid-file = state_dir + "/lighttpd.pid"
>>> server.errorlog = log_root + "/error.log"
>>>
>>> # Server modules
>>> server.modules = (
>>>     "mod_proxy",
>>>     "mod_redirect",
>>>     "mod_accesslog",
>>> )
>>>
>>> # debug settings
>>> debug.log-request-handling        = "enable"
>>> debug.log-request-header          = "enable"
>>> debug.log-request-header-on-error = "enable"
>>> debug.log-response-header         = "enable"
>>> debug.log-file-not-found          = "enable"
>>> debug.log-condition-handling      = "enable"
>>>
>>> # VIRTUAL HOSTS
>>>
>>> # Main server
>>> $SERVER["socket"] == ":8001" {
>>>     server.port = 8001
>>>     ssl.engine = "enable"
>>>     ssl.pemfile = "/etc/kimchi/kimchi.pem"
>>>  #   server.document-root = server_root + "/lighttpd"
>>>     proxy.debug = 1
>>>     proxy.server  = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 
>>> 8010 )))
>>> }
>>>
>>> # redirect from http to https
>>> $SERVER["socket"] == ":8000" {
>>>     server.port = 8000
>>>     server.document-root = server_root + "/lighttpd"
>>>
>>>     $HTTP["host"] =~ "[^0-9:]*" {
>>>         url.redirect = ("[^0-9:]*" => "https://%0:8001$0")
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> 4) Run with /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/kimchi/lighttpd.conf.
>>>
>>> You will can access https://localhost:8001 with no problems, but, if 
>>> you try to access localhost:8000, you will be redirect to 
>>> https://127.0.0.1:8010.
>>>
>>> I did not understand why this is happening. Can someone please take 
>>> a look?
>>>
>>
>
>


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Ramon Nunes Medeiros
Kimchi Developer
Software Engineer - Linux Technology Center Brazil
IBM Systems & Technology Group
Phone : +55 19 2132 7878
ramonn at br.ibm.com