Lighttpd proxying requests for Apache

*Not Complete
This is a brief
note I will update over time to reflect my current setup for serving
django with lighty proxying requests.

Benifits of proxying

The benefits of proxying web-requests has been well documented in
recent times. Lower over head for serving static files like html,
javascript, css and images. In my convoluted setup I am using lighttpd
to serve most of my static content which is far faster than using
apache with the inherent overhead of python and php and other modules
every time a file is requested.

Install the needed software sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-worker apache2-threaded-dev lighttpd
libapache2-mod-python

Apache Configuration

I have configured apache to listen on port 81 and blocked it from
pubic access at the firewall because I will be using lighttpd to proxy
requests to apache . I also have disabled apache logging as it will be
handled by lighttpd.

<VirtualHost *:81>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
        ServerName example.com
        ServerAlias www.example.com
        DocumentRoot /home/websites/example.com/www_root
        <Location "/">
                SetHandler python-program
                PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
                SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE example.settings
                PythonPath "['/home/websites/example.com']+sys.path"               
                PythonDebug Off
        </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Lighttpd Configuration

server.modules   += ( "mod_proxy","mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_status","mod_cgi", "mod_redirect" )

$HTTP["host"] == "media.example.com" {

        server.document-root = "/home/websites/example.com/media_root"

        server.errorlog = "/home/websites/example.com/log/media.example.com.err.log"
        accesslog.filename = "/home/websites/example.com/log/media.example.com.acc.log"

}

else $HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|\.)example\.com$" {

        proxy.server  = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "127.0.0.1","port" => 81 )))

        server.errorlog = "/home/websites/example.com/log/www.example.com.err.log"
        accesslog.filename = "/home/websites/example.com/log/www.daxroc.com.acc.log"
}