[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#445459: lighttpd: mod_alias fails on localhost

[Olaf van der Spek]

On 10/24/07, Steve Greenland <steveg at moregruel.net> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > I tried to reproduce this on a fresh install of 1.4.18-1, but failed.
> > A fresh install doesn't include aliases except those for 127.0.0.1, so
> > I'd like to ask you what you changed from the default configuration.
>
> Uh, I added aliases (and enabled mod_alias, of course). For example, I
> added the following for nagios support:
>
>
> alias.url += ("/nagios2/cgi-bin" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios2",
>               "/nagios2/" => "/usr/share/nagios2/htdocs/",
>               )
>
> If I access 'http://localhost/nagios2/', I get a 404. If I access
> 'http://speedy.moregruel.net/nagios2/', it works fine. Using IPs instead
> of names makes no difference: using 127.0.0.1 fails, while 192.168.1.2
> works.

Both attempts were from localhost? Or is the second attempt from another host?

> Okay, while trying to make the minimal lighttpd.conf that exhibits the
> problem, I found that aliases work if 10-mod_cgi.conf is not enabled.
> (I'd guess that this makes this bug related to #345554.) In particular,
> if I comment out the remoteip section in 10-cgi.conf like this:
>
> #$HTTP["remoteip"] == "127.0.0.1" {
> #   alias.url += ( "/cgi-bin/" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/" )
> #   $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin/" {
> #       cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
> #   }
> #}
>
> ...aliases work again. I'm not sure why that section is there, the
> /cgi-bin/ -> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ mapping should work no matter what the
> remote IP.
>
> BTW, if you expect the bug submitter to respond to a question, you
> really need to CC the submitter; the BTS doesn't automatically do this
> (which I think is bad design...) I just happened to check the bug and
> found your question.

I didn't know that and I'll probably forget again. I used the reportbug tool.
It's a bad design indeed.

Olaf