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oupala / apaxy

a simple, customisable theme for your apache directory listing
https://oupala.github.io/apaxy/
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Does this work with lighttpd? #91

Closed rd18aac closed 5 years ago

rd18aac commented 7 years ago

Does this theme work with lighttpd aka. lighty?

It's similar to Apache but more lightweight. It has the ability to add a custom CSS file so I thought it shouldn't be pretty hard to get it working.

ghost commented 6 years ago

It all depends on how lighttpd generates it's directory indexes. Also, does it support all of the things in .htaccess? If it does, then yes, apaxy should work with lighttpd. I'll do some research on this.

oupala commented 5 years ago

@jordanbancino Did you had time to work on lightttpd compatibility?

oupala commented 5 years ago

As Nginx (see #51), lighttpd documentation says that lighttpd does not support htaccess files:

Do you support .htaccess files?

No. Lightys design does not permit implementing this functionality as config files are loaded at startup time and .htaccess would be needed to be parsed at request time. Also scanning all the directories in the request path for those files can cause significant slowdown especially because lighty is single process and single threaded. Furhtermore, .htaccess files are Apache config files. We would need to write a parser and it might not even be possible to map all functionality to lighty logic.

As a consequence, Apaxy will probably don't work out-of-the-box with lighttpd, while it could maybe work with a bit of tuning.