added configuration reg. curl and lighttpd with error code 417

diff --git a/mods/sample-Lighttpd.config b/mods/sample-Lighttpd.config
index 422c710069089e4d31d887e22dede758e8d95eab..1c83700609c180fbee48df3e78cad5bbc4948006 100644 (file)
--- a/mods/sample-Lighttpd.config
+++ b/mods/sample-Lighttpd.config
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Below is a sample config for Lighttpd that
+Below is a sample config for Lighttpd that 
 seems to work well on Debian Squeeze, with "lighttpd/1.4.28 (ssl)"
 
 The idea is: if someone enters the bare URL for my site, 'example.com',
@@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ the requested URL.
 
 Enjoy!
 
+On Debian Jessie with lighttpd 1.4.35-4 there was a problem encountered
+between curl (which is used by Friendica in the background) and lighttp.
+This problem caused requests being served with an error code of 417 in
+the logs and no delivery of postings from the contacts.
+
+One can solve the issue by adding
+
+    server.reject-expect-100-with-417 = "disable"
+
+to the lighttpd configuratiion file (e.g. in the beginning with the
+other 'server.xxx' settings.
+
 ---------------( config starts )-----------------
 
 debug.log-request-handling = "disable"
@@ -50,21 +62,16 @@ ssl.ca-file = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/ca.pem"
 # fix for problem between curl and lighttpd
 server.reject-expect-100-with-417 = "disable"
 
-# Send everybody to landing
-page:
+# Send everybody to landing page:
 $SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
 
 $HTTP["scheme"] == "http" {
     $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*" {
-        # This next redirect doesn't appear to ever execute in
-Firefox
-        # (sometimes, anyway -- caching issue?), but it does seem
-to
-        # reliably in Google's Chromium browser. If I change it
-here
-        # and restart Lighty, Firefox still goes to the URL in
-the
-        # last 'else' below. Or something.
+    # This next redirect doesn't appear to ever execute in Firefox
+    # (sometimes, anyway -- caching issue?), but it does seem to
+    # reliably in Google's Chromium browser. If I change it here
+    # and restart Lighty, Firefox still goes to the URL in the
+    # last 'else' below. Or something.
 Sometimes.
         server.document-root = "/var/www"
         url.redirect = (".*" => "https://example.com")
@@ -79,8 +86,7 @@ $HTTP["scheme"] == "https" {
     $HTTP["host"] == "wordpress.example.com" {
         server.document-root = "/var/www/wordpress"
         ssl.pemfile = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/wordpress.pem"
-        # include
-"wpmu-rewrites.conf"
+        # include "wpmu-rewrites.conf"
         url.rewrite-if-not-file = (
             "^/(.*/)?files/$" => "/index.php",
              "^/(.*/)?files/(.*)" => "/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2",
@@ -93,10 +99,8 @@ $HTTP["scheme"] == "https" {
     else $HTTP["host"] == "friendica.example.com" {
         server.document-root = "/var/www/friendica"
         ssl.pemfile = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/friendica.pem"
-        # Got the following 'Drupal Clean URL'after Mike suggested
-trying
-        # something along those lines, from
-http://drupal.org/node/1414950
+        # Got the following 'Drupal Clean URL'after Mike suggested trying
+        # something along those lines, from http://drupal.org/node/1414950
         url.rewrite-if-not-file = (
             "^\/([^\?]*)\?(.*)$" => "/index.php?q=$1&$2",
             "^\/(.*)$" => "/index.php?q=$1"
@@ -124,12 +128,8 @@ include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl"
 dir-listing.encoding        = "utf-8"
 server.dir-listing          = "disable"
 
-#compress.cache-dir          =
-"/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
-#compress.filetype           = ( "application/x-javascript", "text/css",
-"text/html", "text/p\
-lain"
-)
+#compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
+#compress.filetype           = ( "application/x-javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/p\lain" )
 
 
 include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"