Redirecting with Lighttpd

June 20th, 2006

I just recently changed my site to permanently redirect http://www.atomgiant.com and http://blog.atomgiant.com to just http://atomgiant.com so please make a note of it.

This will make it easier for me to track my site stats, but just as important, it will have a positive impact on search engine rankings.

There are many ways to perform this redirect such as via meta redirects, but I decided to use Lighttpd for two reasons:

  1. Lighttpd makes this really easy.
  2. The redirect is instantaneous. With meta redirects there can be a very noticeable delay.

My lighttpd redirect code is as follows:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(www.|blog.)" {
    url.redirect = (
        "^/(.*)" => "http://atomgiant.com/$1",
        "" => "http://atomgiant.com/",
        "/" => "http://atomgiant.com/"
    )
  }

Also, don’t forget to include mod_redirect as one of your lighttpd server.modules

References:
The redirect code was adopted from here

Posted by Tom Davies Filed in General

One Response to “Redirecting with Lighttpd”

  1. Hendry Lee Says:
    October 17th, 2008 at 5:53 am

    Here is the code to do exactly the opposite, redirecting with non-www to www.

    $HTTP[”host”] =~ “^example.com$” {
    url.redirect = ( “^/(.*)” => “http://www.example.com/$1″ )
    }

    Here is a tutorial on www redirection.

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