Trying to install on Cherokee/Lighttpd [SOLVED]

[MaurizioB]

Hello,
I wanted to test Bludit on my local machine before uploading online, and since I don't want apache for simple tests, I decided to try Cherokee, a small and light server.
Unfortunally I'm stuck after installing Bludit: I've been able to install it, but if I go to the admin login page I just can't access the administration. After I enter my id/pw it just shows me again the login page.
Cherokee works a little differently than apache, I also tried with lighttpd but I wasn't able to translate the rewrite rules.
I added a static content rule for the /bludit/themes directory, and that was what allowed me to install Bludit successfully (or, at least, I think so). I was able to set a default redirect rule, which internally translates ^/(.*)$ to /bludit/index.php, but I might be missing something.
I'm asking for help on the Cherokee irc channel, but didn't found a solution yet. Is there another rule I should add, maybe?

Thanks.

EDIT:
This rule suggested by Tak-MK should do the trick!

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url.rewrite-once = (
        ".*\.(txt)$" => "/",
)

url.rewrite-if-not-file  = (
        ".*\?(.*)" => "index.php?$1",
        "." => "index.php"
)

just change the paths if you don't have bludit in the website root, so "index.php" becomes "/bludit/index.php" and so on.

[Edi]

Which operating system do you use on your local machine? In can only test in a Windows environment.

[Edi]

By the way: Is Cherokee still maintained? There is a commit on Github half a year ago, but the last stable release 1.2.103 has the date April 21, 2013, also the website shows © 2001-2013. The last entry on facebook is from January 2012, the last tweet on Twitter from October 2011.

[kaaleth]

Try wamp.

[MaurizioB]

Hi. I'm on Linux, so there could be some permission or path issues.
I just realized that cherokee has actually not been maintained a lot in the latest 2 years, so I might change to something more updated like lighttpd. The point is that I've some problems configuring it too. I tried to add a rule for mod_rewrite, but I still get problems.

This is what I set in the lighttpd.conf:
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/(.*)" => "/bludit/index.php$1" )

[diego]

Hi MaurizioB,
for the moment I'm testing Bludit on Apache and Nginx, I will make the documentation for Lighttpd. The first problem here are the rewrite rules, if you found it please share

Nginx docs: http://docs.bludit.com/en/web-servers/nginx

[MaurizioB]

Ok, so far I was able to install Bludit correctly on lighttpd using this:

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url.rewrite-once = ( "^/bludit/themes/(.*)" => "$0",
                        "^/bludit/(.*)" => "/bludit/index.php?q=$1" )

But the problem remains: when I try to login in the admin page, it just shows me the login page.
This is the error.log when I try to access the admin area:

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2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr:  | Error occurred when trying validate the tokenCSRF. Token CSRF ID: aff086276a5c4d6b5a885595db5461d0aaecf5ea
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Session::destroy | Session destroyed.
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Login::isLogged | FingerPrint are differents. Session fingerPrint:  !== Current fingerPrint: 18af05a1aa5f4ce101acdbce15f8e397ed612504
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Login::isLogged | FingerPrint are differents. Session fingerPrint:  !== Current fingerPrint: 18af05a1aa5f4ce101acdbce15f8e397ed612504
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Login::isLogged | FingerPrint are differents. Session fingerPrint:  !== Current fingerPrint: 18af05a1aa5f4ce101acdbce15f8e397ed612504
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Login::isLogged | FingerPrint are differents. Session fingerPrint:  !== Current fingerPrint: 18af05a1aa5f4ce101acdbce15f8e397ed612504
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Login::isLogged | FingerPrint are differents. Session fingerPrint:  !== Current fingerPrint: 18af05a1aa5f4ce101acdbce15f8e397ed612504
2015-11-10 01:07:15: (mod_fastcgi.c.2695) FastCGI-stderr: Login::isLogged | FingerPrint are differents. Session fingerPrint:  !== Current fingerPrint: 18af05a1aa5f4ce101acdbce15f8e397ed612504

[MaurizioB]

Ok, I managed it.
It turns out I was using the wrong rule, after understanding what the .htaccess and nginx rules were about (let index.php process the request if the requested file doesn't exists) I removed the rewrite-once rule and used this one instead:

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url.rewrite-if-not-file = ( "^/bludit/(.*)" => "/bludit/index.php?q=$1" )

After restarting lighttpd I was finally able to make Bludit work. And it rocks
You might want to add it to the documentation, maybe. I'm trying to make it work for Cherokee too, but since I don't really know it I've not been successful yet.

Thank you

[diego]

Ok, I managed it.
It turns out I was using the wrong rule, after understanding what the .htaccess and nginx rules were about (let index.php process the request if the requested file doesn't exists) I removed the rewrite-once rule and used this one instead:

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url.rewrite-if-not-file = ( "^/bludit/(.*)" => "/bludit/index.php?q=$1" )

After restarting lighttpd I was finally able to make Bludit work. And it rocks
You might want to add it to the documentation, maybe. I'm trying to make it work for Cherokee too, but since I don't really know it I've not been successful yet.

Thank you

Nice, I will install a server with lighttpd and test it.
Thanks

[Tak-MK]

Hi! Maybe I'm a bit late, but I'm using these rules and it works

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url.rewrite-once = (
        ".*\.(txt)$" => "/",
)

url.rewrite-if-not-file  = (
        ".*\?(.*)" => "index.php?$1",
        "." => "index.php"
)

Tested it on a FreeBSD 10.2 with Lighttpd 1.4.37