WordPress 3.0 network lighttpd rewrite rules
I recently installed my first WordPress network on lighttpd and was looking for rewrite rules. This post is correct except for the rewrite rule for files. I supposed it’s a change that was introduced in 3.0, or maybe earlier. Anyway, here are updated rewrite rules:
In your lighttpd.conf:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "domain\.com" { simple-vhost.default-host = "domain.com" include "wpmu-rewrite.conf" }
And wpmu-rewrite.conf:
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/(.*/)?files/$" => "/index.php", "^/(.*/)?files/(.*)" => "/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2", "^(/wp-admin/.*)" => "$1", "^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*)" => "/$2", "^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" => "/$2", )
What’s changed from the other site’s example is the ms-files.php rewrite rule.
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This entry was written by nicolas, posted on 6. June 2010, filed under Content Management and tagged lighttpd, rewrite, WordPress, WordPress network, WPMU. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
I am Nicolas Kuttler, a web developer, system administrator and IT consultant from France, currently living in Germany. 
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Can you provide the rewrite code for wp mu installs in a subdirectory?
For example, my wp multisite install is in the following subdirectory
htttp://www.mysite.com/myblogs/
with subsequent new sites being created as “myhome” with the url being http://www.mysite.com/myblogs/myhome
Thank you.
Hi Cliff, I don’t use subdirectory installs myself, so I don’t really know. Just look for pre-3.0 rewrite rules and fix the ms-files.php line. Should be really easy.