>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #43781. --> Reported by: [Amazon](https://www.drupal.org/user/18703) >>> <p>The following comments were valuable and should be moved to a child page on Clean URLs.</p> <p><a href="http://drupal.org/node/15365#comment-44471">http://drupal.org/node/15365#comment-44471</a><br> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/15365#comment-71124">http://drupal.org/node/15365#comment-71124</a><br> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/15365#comment-46976">http://drupal.org/node/15365#comment-46976</a></p> <h3>Microsoft Internet Services Server</h3> <p>Windows ISS MySQL PHP(WIMP)-<a href="http://drupal.org/node/27141">Tips for Configuring Drupal on WIMP</a></p> <h3>Lighttpd</h3> <p>For those who have stepped up a notch in performance and moved from Apache to <a href="http://www.lighttpd.net/">Lighttpd</a>, you can use the following configuration for Lighty's mod_rewrite module:</p> <pre>url.rewrite-final = (<br>&nbsp; "^/system/test/(.*)$" =&gt; "/index.php?q=system/test/$1",<br>&nbsp; "^/([^.?]*)\?(.*)$" =&gt; "/index.php?q=$1&amp;$2",<br>&nbsp; "^/([^.?]*)$" =&gt; "/index.php?q=$1"<br>)</pre><p>The first line ensures that Drupal's clean URL check (when saving Settings) succeeds (Drupal makes an HTTP request for a path of the form <em>/system/test/yLgnwqqUu5cWnvPi4Hrz.png</em>). It's a special case that must be handled separately (read on for the reason).</p> <p>The two following lines let Drupal handle any URL that <b>doesn't contain a dot</b>. This is significant because we can assume, fairly confidently, that addresses like <em>/node/add</em> are Drupal URLs, but addresses such as <em>/themes/bluemarine/style.css</em> are physical files. So the above configuration will work for all cases where this assumption holds true; if there are exceptions to the rule, they can be manually added to the rewrite configuration.</p> <p>See also the related discussion at <a href="http://drupal.org/node/20766">http://drupal.org/node/20766</a></p> <p>I just successfully set up lighttpd 1.4.8 with php4 via fastcgi using those rules above.<br> As per <a href="http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/fastcgi.html#configuring-php">lighttpd documentation</a> I also set up /etc/php4/cgi/php.ini to have that cgi fix. Then I added those rewrite rules for corresponding virtual_host. </p> <ul> <li>Ubuntu breezy's <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/web/php4-cgi">php4-cgi package</a> </li><li>bougyman's lighttpd package (see <a href="http://www.lighttpd.net/download/">http://www.lighttpd.net/download/</a> for details) </li></ul>