CGI on lighttpd

Installed lighttpd on an Ubuntu box over the weekend. Enabling CGI turned out to be a non-trivial exercise just because the online documentation was a bit confusing. The simplest config that will work is:

  server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )
  $HTTP["url"] =~ "/cgi-bin/" {
    cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
    alias.url +=  ("/cgi-bin/" => "/some/path/to/cgi-dir/"
  }