Install and Configure Lighttpd

This role installs and configures lighttpd for my server.

Requirements

Keep in mind parts of the config are specific to my server configuration and website structure. Particularly the url.rewrite and url.redirect fields.

Role Variables

The lighttpd_git_source variable should be used to set to the address of the git repository for the website.

The variable lighttpd_website_name is used to set the website name (directory created for website) and the lighttpd_server_root should be used to set the website root relative to the git repository.

lighttpd_entry_file should be used to set the entry file for the website.

The lighttpd_server_port and lighttpd_server_address variables should be used to set the the port of lighttpd and the website address respectively.

The lighttpd_user variable can be used to set the user lighttpd is running as.

Additional rules in the config can be added by setting the lighttpd_rules variable to a list of (multiline) strings.

Example Playbook

  - hosts: servers
    vars:
      lighttpd_rules:
        - |
          url.rewrite-once = (
            "^/(dist|images|api)/(.*)$" =>      "/$1/$2",
            "^/robots.txt$"             =>      "/robots.txt",
            ".*"                        =>      "/"
          )
        - |
          url.redirect = (
            "^/(projects)$"             =>      "/index.html"
          )

    roles:
      - { role: tychobrouwer.lighttpd, lighttpd_git_source: [email protected]:username/repo.git,
          lighttpd_website_name: portfolio, lighttpd_server_address: https://mywebsite.com }
      - { role: tychobrouwer.lighttpd, lighttpd_git_source: [email protected]:username/repo.git,
          lighttpd_website_name: portfolio, lighttpd_server_address: https://mywebsite.com,
          lighttpd_server_port: 80, lighttpd_user: lighttpd, lighttpd_entry_file: index.html, lighttpd_server_root: public }

License

BSD

Author Information

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