lighttpd 1.4.8 was just released and next to a pile of bugfixes we added a new option to fastcgi.server to allow a simple setup of multiple rails app in one virtual host. Next to the usual setup with fastcgi.server the new option ‘strip-request-uri’ removes parts of the request-uri before they are sent to the backend: $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/app1/" { server.document-root = "/home/jan/rails/app1/public/