Emil Haukeland Mostly for myself, but maybe something useful for you too?

URL rewriting for wordpress and lighttpd

Please note: Since I managed to lose my original database-file for this blog I have tried to recreate this post since quite a few of you found it useful.

In your lighttpd.conf or 10-rewrite.conf enable mod_rewrite and then paste the following code (you will need to edit the $HTTP["host"] though):

$HTTP["host"] =~ "emil.haukeland.name" {
  url.rewrite-final = (
 
    # Exclude some directories from rewriting
    "^/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|gallery2)/(.*)" => "$0",
 
    # Exclude .php files at root from rewriting
    "^/(.*.php)" => "$0",
 
    # Handle permalinks and feeds
    "^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1"
  )
}

These three rules should cover for every plugin and functionality. If you have other folders which you will need to access without any redirection (images in a separate folder etc), you have to add this to the first rule.

Now change the setting in Options->Permalinks to Custom and create your permalink structure. Personally I prefer this:
http://emil.haukeland.name/%category%/%year%/%postname%/