Anyways, I found that Terminal.app will not run and will give the anoying:

“The administrator has set your shell to an illegal value”

Message if the shell is set to anything other than /bin/bash. Since I installed bash 3.2 using fink, I was using /usr/bin/bash (which is a symlink to /sw/bin/bash). So what I did to fix this was (of course using iterm, since term doesnt open).

sudo mv /bin/bash{,.old}
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/bash /bin/bash

Then I went into “NetInfo Manager” and changed my shell back to “/bin/bash”, and everything is cool again.

I am not sure when this issue started apparing, since I was using iTerm, but I am suspecting this was brooken in some Apple updae of some sort.

But I found that I had to use the $HTTP["host"] matching against the virtual host name instead of $HTTP["url'] matching against the first part of the path to make it work. Otherwise I got a 404 like Ryan did. Looking at the logs, it seems that aside from the top page, and maybe static pages (I don’t know), the other requests went to the main host, not the virtual host. The condition log showed some requests for dispatch.cgi which were not matched by the virtual host.

I don’t know if the lighttpd version has anything to do with it, I’m running 1.4.20. I could have sworn it was working with “url” before a recent update.

If you use “host” matching, then be sure to specify “ProxyPreserveHost on” on the Apache side, otherwise lighttpd doesn’t get the original Host: header.

ProxyPass / http://www.metak.com

should have a slash at the end

ProxyPass / http://www.metak.com/

since otherwise links to a page page.html become http://www.metak.compage.html (slash missing).

Stephan

For level 3 the command would be:
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/lighttpd

or exactly how you did it

thanks in advance