GET through URL Rewrite Lighty lighttpd

one quick post about handling this. it took me a few hours to figure this out. make sure you handle the URL rewrite in the lighttpd conf otherwise you will see your GET params being dropped in PHP at least that was my experience here is the link where I found the correct wayt to rewrite through lighttpd


http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Docs_ModRewrite


and then also check it out github for Slim example which is the framework I was using


https://github.com/codeguy/Slim/issues/405

Lighttpd Permission denied on home directory Alias

I recently ran into problems trying to set up lighttpd on redhat and giving home directory access for alias URL's After chmod and chown on all folders and directories I could see the log throwing a permssion denied when trying to display contents from the home folder. I was confused and spent a lot of time trying figure out what the problem was. It turns out this Article helped me understand a little more about the problem I faced

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux this link showed me how to check if SELinux is working and also understand about permissions to different processes. After I ran the following command

chcon -Rv --type=httpd_sys_content_t /home/lighttpd

everything started working. It had the wrong type and it was not allowing lighttpd to read the contents of the directory. I hope this helps someone out if the run into this problem.