If you don’t configure your wordpress virtual host properly in lighttpd, your wordpress cache will still make use of PHP.<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t it be nice if all those cached requests were served directy from the webserver as the static files that they are, bypassing the CPU\/memory load PHP can have, and use those resources for otherthings?<\/p>\n
For this to occur with lighttpd, you will need mod_magnet, so assuming you’re on a Ubuntu\/Debian based linux distro let’s make sure we have it installed.<\/p>\n
Then let’s make sure it’s enabled, you can do this manually on your lighttpd.conf by adding “mod_magnet” to the list of enabled modules…<\/p>\n or you can do it the lighty way:<\/p>\n (this simply makes a symlink to the Now, on your wordpress directory, create a file called Then on your vhost configuration in lighttpd.conf add the following towards the end. Restart your lighttpd Now watch how your PHP processes breathe a lot better and you page loads are insanely faster.<\/p>\n You’re welcome \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Optimizing Your WordPress Cache Loads in Lighttpd. If you don’t configure your wordpress virtual host properly in lighttpd, your wordpress cache will still make use of PHP. 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rewrite.lua<\/code> and paste the following script in it:<\/p>\nfunction log(str)\n -- wanna tail -f a log to see what's happening \n fp = io.open(\"\/path\/to\/some\/lua.log\",\"a+\")\n fp:write(str .. \"\\n\")\n fp:flush()\n fp:close()\nend\n\nfunction serve_html(cached_page)\n if (lighty.stat(cached_page)) then\n lighty.env[\"physical.path\"] = cached_page\n return true\n else\n return false\n end\nend\n\nfunction serve_gzip(cached_page)\n if (lighty.stat(cached_page .. \".gz\")) then\n lighty.header[\"Content-Encoding\"] = \"gzip\"\n lighty.header[\"Content-Type\"] = \"\"\n lighty.env[\"physical.path\"] = cached_page .. \".gz\"\n return true\n else\n return false\n end\nend\n\nif (lighty.env[\"uri.scheme\"] == \"http\") then\n ext = \".html\"\nelse\n ext = \"-https.html\"\nend\n\ncached_page = lighty.env[\"physical.doc-root\"] .. \"\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/\" .. lighty.request[\"Host\"] .. lighty.env[\"request.orig-uri\"]\ncached_page = string.gsub(cached_page, \"\/\/\", \"\/\")\ncached_page = string.gsub(cached_page, lighty.request[\"Host\"] .. \"\/index.php\", lighty.request[\"Host\"])\n\nattr = lighty.stat(cached_page)\n\nif (attr) then\n query_condition = not (lighty.env[\"uri.query\"] and string.find(lighty.env[\"uri.query\"], \".*s=.*\"))\n user_cookie = lighty.request[\"Cookie\"] or \"no_cookie_here\"\n cookie_condition = not (string.find(user_cookie, \".*comment_author.*\") or (string.find(user_cookie, \".*wordpress.*\") and not string.find(user_cookie,\"wordpress_test_cookie\")))\n\n if (query_condition and cookie_condition) then\n accept_encoding = lighty.request[\"Accept-Encoding\"] or \"no_acceptance\"\n\n if (string.find(accept_encoding, \"gzip\")) then\n if not serve_gzip(cached_page) then \n serve_html(cached_page) \n end\n else\n serve_html(cached_page)\n end\n --log('cache-hit: ' .. cached_page)\n end\nelse\n --log('cache-miss: ' .. cached_page)\nend\n<\/code><\/pre>\nConfiguring your vhost in lighttpd for WordPress redirects and direct cache serves without php.<\/h1>\n
\n(Fix paths if you have to)<\/p>\nvar.wp_blog = 1\n\nmagnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( server.document-root + \"\/rewrite.lua\" )\n\nurl.rewrite-if-not-file = (\n \"^\/(wp-.+).*\/?\" => \"$0\",\n \"^\/(sitemap.xml)\" => \"$0\",\n \"^\/(xmlrpc.php)\" => \"$0\",\n \"^\/(.+)\/?$\" => \"\/index.php\/$1\"\n )\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo service lighttpd restart<\/code><\/p>\n