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Thu 1 Jul 2010

How to configure a Drupal site in a virtual subdirectory under Lighttpd

Drupal offers built-in support for sites in virtual subdirectories, e.g. www.example.com/subdir, but getting this up and running under Lighttpd is not well documented. Fear not, for it can be done with only minor configuration file tweaks and a few extra mod_rewrite directives.

Wed 30 Jun 2010

How to run multisite Drupal on Lighttpd

Let's start with the obvious: if you run more than one Drupal site on a server, you should be running those sites in a Drupal multisite configuration. If you're looking for exceptional Drupal performance and a small memory footprint, you should experiment with Lighttpd. This howto explains how to run multisite Drupal on Lighttpd.

Fri 20 Nov 2009

Adventures with Dreamhost, MediaTemple, and (ultimately) Linode

After struggling with Guestbook spam on benandmaggiegetmarried.com, I realized how slow Dreamhost had become; after moving to a Dedicated-Virtual account at MediaTemple on Monday, I ultimately migrated my sites to a Linode virtual machine running Arch Linux & lighttpd.