Onward and upward

I was getting tired of editing core crap with habari, and wanted something that works, doesn’t have a giant base, and has a giant ass community. Well wordpress fit the bill.

I did a quick google search and found a migration script to migrate habari to wordpress:

http://chrismeller.com/2009/08/migrating-habari-to-wordpress

It worked very well, and I’ve had to do very little tweaking. I’m glad that it was mostly painless. I’m hoping that I might be able to move back to habari at some point because I really loved how it was laid out, and it had a wonderful codebase. Yet it seems like development is a little slow, and there isn’t as large of community behind habari as there is behind wordpress.

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I still have a lot of tweaking to do for wordpress to work well for me, but I suppose it will be a lot easier since there are already people that have built plugins and stuff for me to use.

Habari on Lighttpd

I’ve used apache for the longest time, and it has served me very well. I still use apache to host this site, and many other sites. Yet I’ve grown an itch to try something new, and have ventured to lighttpd. It’s painless to setup, and the config file is one of the simplest around. Anywho after I switched over I tried to setup habari and hit a little snag. Habari uses a .htaccess file with apache to take advantage of mod_rewrite. Well lighttpd doesn’t support .htaccess, or any other directory independent configs . Anywho it’s simple enough to setup a rewrite in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. Yet if you set the rewrite for the localhost, you are left with the habari site, and then anything else you want to develop has to mangle together. I wanted a simple solution that would allow me to run habari, yet not in the root of my web directory. Also I wanted ‘http://localhost’ to display my webroot contents (who needs an index file?)

Step 1) Edit your /etc/hosts, and add another faux host besides localhost:

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#      
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost Minifsk
127.0.0.1       fsk141.localdomain      localhost Minifsk
# End of file

Step 2) Fire up your editor, and open /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

#uncomment "mod_rewrite" module

#add index.php to index file names
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html",
                                "index.htm", "default.htm" )

#add a vhost
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^fsk141\.localdomain$" {
  server.document-root = "/srv/http/Web/fsk141"
  url.rewrite-once =  (
        "^/(?!scripts/|3rdparty/|system/|doc/)(.*)$" =>  "/index.php"
  )
  server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/fsk141/error.log"
  accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/fsk141/access.log"
}

#enable dir listing
dir-listing.activate       = "enable"

#uncomment fast-cgi stuf:
fastcgi.server             = ( ".php" =>
                               ( "localhost" =>
                                 (
                                   "socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket",
                                   "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi"
                                 )
                               )
                            )

Save and Close!

Now all you have to do is go through the standard habari install steps. As per the directory you setup as your vhost. for the example above I must put my habari files in ‘/srv/http/Web/fsk141′, and to start the install process I open ‘http://fsk141.localdomain’ Oh and btw the vhost includes the rewrite!!! Don’t forget about the rewrite rules otherwise habari will bork…