lighttpd adding vhost error

Question

I'm trying to have multiple domains. Followed the instructions from web and added the lines in lighttpd.conf file:

$HTTP["host"] =~ “(^|.)example.com$” { server.document-root = “/var/www/example.com″ }

but when I restart the server I get the error:

(configfile.c.859) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 37 pos: 13 invalid character in variable name 2012-02-15 07:38:57: (configfile.c.915) configfile parser failed at: =~

Everywhere I see there characters =~ and I don't know why it won't parse them now. I'm using Debian 6

Is line 37 that line? And is that copied directly from the config file? — Shane Madden, Feb 15 '12 at 04:05
yes this is 37 line from the conf, directly copied. before that I copied from the website. it was quotations, look answer below — cikatomo, Feb 15 '12 at 04:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '12 at 04:30

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I'm seeing some non-standard quotation marks (open-quote, close-quote, and something else) in what you've posted, and I think this is what lighttpd is barfing on:

$HTTP["host"] =~ “(^|.)example.com$” { server.document-root = “/var/www/example.com″ }

Try instead:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|.)example.com$" { server.document-root = "/var/www/example.com" }

answered Feb 15 '12 at 04:30

Lars Rohrbach

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man, you have a good eye, congratulations. I didn't even know there was different types of quotations. – cikatomo Feb 15 '12 at 04:56
Yup - avoid Word and Wordpad when working with plain-text configs - they'll mangle `-` characters too. – Shane Madden Feb 15 '12 at 05:08

lighttpd adding vhost error

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