Lighttpd: Let sub-path point to different document root
document-root, lighttpd, subdirectory
Solution
Instead of trying to set `server.document-root`, you can use `mod_alias` to achieve this:
server.modules = ( ..., "mod_alias" )
...
alias.url = ( "/other/" => "/some/other/dir/" )
This will create an alias such that all requests to `/other/` and resources inside that folder will be redirected to `/some/other/dir/` on the file system, with a request directly to `/other/` being pointed directly to the root of `/some/other/dir/`, just like you want.
Problem
I have a lighttpd-Setup pointing to the document-root `/var/www`. However, I want the URL `other/` to point to `/some/other/dir`. This I'm doing with the following config: ``` $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/other($|/)" { server.document-root = "/some/other/dir" } ``` However, if I access 'http://myhost/other', lighttpd tries to access `/some/other/dir/other` instead of just `/some/other/dir`. Is it possible to somehow strip the `/other` but keep any further URL segments? So for instance, `http://myhost/other/sub/foo.txt` should point to `/some/other/dir/sub/foo.txt`.