I have lighttpd serving hobbit web pages. I am not a expert lighttpd user but this is the configuration that works to me, perhaps anybody can improve it and developers can distribute the configuration file (like hobbit-apache.conf)
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hobbit configuration based on
http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/cgi.html
server.modules += ( "mod_cgi", "mod_auth" )
alias.url += ( "/hobbit/" => "/var/lib/hobbit/www/", "/hobbit-cgi/" => "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin/", "/hobbit-seccgi/" => "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure/" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/hobbit-cgi/|^/hobbit-seccgi/" { dir-listing.activate = "disable" cgi.assign = ( "" => "" ) }
auth.backend = "htpasswd" auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/etc/hobbit/hobbitpasswd"
auth.require = ( "/hobbit-seccgi/" => ( "method" => "basic", "realm" => "Hobbit Administration", "require" => "user=admin" ) )
Regards, Rodolfo Pilas