Greeting IPv6 users with Lighttpd

Posted by Damien Pollet Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:55:12 GMT

Last weekend I configured my web server to accept IPv6 connections (and since my provider ignores IPv6, I’m using a 6to4 tunnel from BTexact).

To celebrate my small patch of adressing space, I added the banner you can see at the top-left of the page. It should be red if you come from IPv4 land and green if my tunnel is up, my config actually works, and you are really in IPv6 (not using an ::ffff:a.b.c.d IP).

So I’m coming to my first point, which is how to tell Lighttpd to differenciate clients and keep the config files modular.

Resarch(ish) discussion after the jump.

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Say hello to Lighttpd

Posted by Damien Pollet Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:06:46 GMT

lighttpd logo … and bye to Apache 2!

I just switched my web server to Lighttpd. The configuration file was quite easy to write without too much RTFMing besides the docs on the Rails wiki.

Disclaimer: This is just quickly tested so it’s probably broken in some way… anyway, we’ll see :-)

Update: I’ve also upgraded typo to get the latest stuff from SVN. Had to migrate my development database by hand (SQlite migrations will be in the next Rails release) and to update all the posts to add tags and clean the categories. And in the process I think I blacklisted myself from technorati by pinging them a little too much during the last hour… oh well :-)

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