The key to lighty is proxying

If you’re using rails, you can proxy through mongrel to get your rails app up and running (typing mongrel_rails start is the only “configuration” you need apart from the proxy setting in lighty), and if using trac, tracd makes it a piece of cake. And here I’ve been trying to configure lighty itself to do the hard work. Judging by the information available, others try as well, and publish their somewhat working result, confusing everyone else. Oh well.

I really like the proxying though, it follows the unix mentality that one web server shouldn’t have to know how to do everything. Small web servers on the side can easily do their specific task better.