Redirect domain.com requests to www.domain.com

Make sure you have mod_redirect in server.modules, then add this to your lighttpd.conf:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^domain\.com$" {
  url.redirect = (
    "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domain.com/$1",
    ""       => "http://www.domain.com/"
  )
}

I wasn't able to come up with a way to do it in a single rule. It seems that only "" (not even "(.*)") will match the root request.

Wordpress clean URLS with Lighttpd, the E-Z way

This single line seems to work for my WP install. I needed to add a couple of redirects and rewrites to handle my RSS feed, since I use Feedburner, but this line does all the heavy lifting...

Place it after server.document-root, either in the main section or in your virtual host sub-sections...

server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php?error=404"