I have an address on my site like so:
In this example, the dot in the 'gigaom.com' part of the query string is screwing with lighttpd and my rewrite rules. I get a 404 with the dot in, no 404 if I take the dot out. My rewrite rules are below. In case it makes a difference, I'm using symfony 1.4.
If anyone could shed some light on this problem it would be much appreciated!
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/(.*\..+)$" => "$0",
"^/(.*)\.(.*)" => "/index.php",
"^/([^.]+)$" => "/index.php/$1",
"^/$" => "/index.php"
)
For anyone having trouble with lighttpd and symfony (I know you're out there, cause there are plenty of unresolved threads on the issue) I ended up solving and answering it below.
OK so after much debugging with the help of:
debug.log-request-handling = "enable"
^^ This is a lifesaver for when you're trying to debug rewrite rules in lighttpd! (it logged everything for me to /var/log/lighttpd/error.log)
I've figured it out. For all those people having trouble getting symfony to work with lighttpd (including the dot problem!) here's a working set of rules:
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/(js|images|uploads|css|sf)/(.*)" => "$0", # we want to load these assets as is, without index.php
"^/[a-zA-Z_-]+\.(html|txt|ico)$" => "$0", # for any static .html files you might be calling in your web root, we don't want to put the index.php controller in front of them
"^/sf[A-z]+Plugin.*" => "$0", # don't want to mess with plugin routes
"^/([a-z_]+)\.php(.*)\.(.*)$" => "/$1.php$2.$3", # same concept as rules below, except for other applications/environments (backend.php, backend_dev.php, etc)
"^/([a-z_]+)\.php([^.]*)$" => "/$1.php$2", # see comment right above this one
"^/(.*)\.(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1.$2", # handle query strings and the dot problem!
"^/([^.]+)$" => "/index.php/$1", # general requests
"^/$" => "/index.php" # the home page
)
If anyone has more trouble, post here. Thanks!