[Twisted-web] documentation -- Techno Turkey's fifth adventure

[Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:54:18 -0200, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
>An interesting question is:
>when one should consider the option of serving static content with a
>server like lighttpd, and forward with mod_proxy requests for dynamic
>content to twisted web?

Fairly easy. Just be sure that all the static content is served from a known (or many _known_) urls like: /static/...

Thus you can use the following rule:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(testing.stiq.it|localhost)$" {
        url.rewrite-once = (
		"^/static/.*" => "$0",
                "^/favicon.ico$" => "/static/$0",
		"^/(.*)" => "/vhost/http/%0/$1"
	)
	$HTTP["url"] !~ "^/(static/|favicon.ico)" {
            proxy.server = ( "" =>
                ( (
                    "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                    "port" => 8080
                ) )
            )
	}
	server.document-root = "/usr/local/src/repos/stiq/"
}

Given the rewrite rule urls are rewritten once and then matched to see if
the request should be proxied or served by lighttpd from the document root.