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Asked: 2026-05-30T15:28:59+00:00

I want Lighttpd to display a different page for internal clients and the default

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I want Lighttpd to display a different page for internal clients and the default page for everyone else.

Between these two links, I have an idea of what I want to do but am not sure of the RegEx I would need to restrict clients using a hostname of [http://]192.168.0.? or [http://]192.168.?.? to a different page. I’ve been using the following code in lighttpd.conf:

server.document-root       = "/var/www/sites"

$HTTP["host"] == "RegExHere" {
        server.document-root    = "/var/www/setup"
}

…where for ‘RegExHere’ I have tried a variety of attempts such as:

192\.168\.0\.\d{1,3}(\s|$))+
192\.168\.
[192.168.[0-9]+.]
192\.168\.[0-9]+.[0-9]+$

…and various combinations thereof. I have no idea whether I’m close, but regardless it only shows me the default page.

Can anyone advise where I may be going wrong please?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to use the =~ syntax to match a regex. Change $HTTP["host"] == "RegExHere" to $HTTP["host"] =~ "RegExHere" and one of those regexs should work. ^192\.168\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$ should do it.

    Found this article on it http://blog.evanweaver.com/2006/06/07/regular-expressions-in-lighttpd-host-redirects/

    edit: I think you need to use $HTTP[“remoteip”] instead of $HTTP[“host”] and it looks like you can do it without regexes.

    $HTTP["remoteip"] == "10.0.0.0/8" { url.access-deny = ("") }

$HTTP["remoteip"] == "127.0.0.0/8" { url.access-deny = ("") }

    http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/27

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