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Lighttpd URL and host matching and include-file spanning (is it possible?)

I have an interesting condition resolution problem to resolve and have not had luck with on-line searching and looking through documentation for lighttpd yet. Many of those searches led to similar ...
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Lighttpd reverse proxy to another server faild

I am trying lighttpd as a reverse proxy (v1.4.53) lighttpd.conf: $HTTP["url"] =~ "(^/example/)" { proxy.header = ("map-urlpath" => ( "/example/" => &...
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Cross platform reverse proxy with lighttpd

I have a website www.somewebsite.com domain hosted on lighttpd 1.4 server configured with server.port = 8080 that is on a device (A) with local IP 192.168.1.26 and I want to get to use a reverse proxy ...
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Lighttpd reverse proxy HTTPS to another server on HTTP

I've a Lighttpd server running on HTTPS, and I want to have one subdirectory on the server act as a reverse proxy for a separate server that runs on HTTP. I've tried following guides on doing both ...
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Proxy URL to different port via Lighttpd

I cannot seem to proxy a URL to another port on same hostname. I have user interface (Angular 5) running on somehost:8080 and the rest of the web application on somehost.com (port 80). I'd like to ...
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Reverse Proxy with https redirect in Lighttpd

I've got a django application here that uses a lighttpd reverse proxy. We recently moved it behind an elastic load balancer on EC2 and I'm having trouble working out the correct config to do what I ...
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How to reverse proxy https with lighttpd?

I want to forward (reverse proxy) requests to https://secure.mydomain.com(:443) to my internal (HTTPS-)WebServer on port 8443 using Lighttp. Environment-Infos: My WebServer is a Tomcat running on ...
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Wrong IP with lighttpd reverse proxy

I use a lighttpd reverse proxy to serve django with gunicorn. Now this config worked: proxy.server = ("" => ( "" => ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 8000, ))) Now i moved the ...
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lighttpd example.com/support to support.example.com

I googled around and could not find a solution. I am not sure If I am using the correct terminology. I am using lighttpd (1.4.33) and would like to go to the url http://support.example.com and have ...
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Lighttpd splitting request URI and dropping query parameter

I'm running lighttpd 1.4.33, which is reverse proxied to from an Apache server that is open to the Internet. When accessing a script from the local address of the lighttpd server, GET parameters are ...
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Rewrite Location response header in lighttpd

I have an instance of lighttpd 1.4.35 listening for https traffic and reverse-proxying it to a back-end server. I.e., .----------. .----------. client ---https--> | ...
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How can I set up a web server for reverse proxy having websockets and socket.io working normally?

I have a VPS currently hosting node.js web apps and one site. However I'm currently using custom ports for the apps. I'd like to simply give each its custom domain and so for more sites, that would ...
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lighttpd reverse proxy rewrite

I am trying to configure lighttpd (v1.5) as a reverse proxy. Gollum is running on port 8080 and I've setup lighttpd.conf as per the following: $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/wiki.*" { proxy-core.protocol = "...
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Will there be a performance gain by using Apache's mod_proxy to proxy off static file requests to Lighttpd/nginx?

I know there are lot of tutorials out there which suggest the use either nginx or lighttpd on port 80 and proxy dynamic requests to apache running on a different port. I am not ready to take that leap ...
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How do you set up a server that will proxy traffic based on hostname?

I'm trying to setup a corollary to how google asks people to point their subdomains to ghs.google.com which then presumably directs traffic to the right servers based on hostname. My setup differs in ...
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Reverse Proxy redirection based on hostname

Here's my setup: Windows Server (2003) receives all traffic for *.mydomain.com, which (up to now) redirects all incoming port 80 traffic to a Linux VM (using VMWare virtual network manager). I now ...
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lighthttpd proxy reverse proxy

I have been looking for good easy to use examples for lighthttpd proxy reverse proxy. My idea is to take domain example.com and forward/reverse proxy to ip 192.168.0.1 port 80, whether it is a tomcat ...
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Reverse proxy server that lets you explicitly define mapping based on request URI?

I'm looking for a reverse proxy solution which either: a) Let's me explicitly define which requests go to which servers based on a regex (or some other similar way of defining that certain URL ...
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lighttpd: Does it still have memory leak and CPU consumption issues?

This page here compares nginx and lighttpd: http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Lighttpd_vs_nginx There are numerous reports of memory leaks unfixed for years as well as severely worse CPU consumption (2% ...
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Configuring lighttpd for many lightweight concurrent Keep-Alive http connections

I am using lighttpd as a front-end proxy to my custom HTTP based application server. I need to configure lighttpd for a large number (let's say around 5000) simultaneous http connections which have a ...
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