Recently, I was facing a terrible bandwidth problem with my forum hosting provider. It was shared hosting which is built on Apache 2. You know, rewriting url work with the help of Apache RewriteEngine which is built on mod_rewrite module. Eventually, I had to change my hosting to a VPS solution. Also I prefered the lighthttpd server as my webserver as it is not heavy and taking less server resourses. Unfortunately I found tfSEO is not supporting lighthttpd as lighthttpd url-rewrite is different and it doesnt have htaccess file support. Ran around several forums. There were no solutions. At the end I refer to lighthttpd documentation and had to built my own url-rewrite. I like to share what I did tfSEO get back into work and it might be useful for some one who can face this in future.

The replaced code of tfSEO from htaccess to lighthttpd url-rewrite

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url.rewrite-once = (
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/newpost.html$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3&goto=newpost",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3",
"^/forum/f([0-9]+)\/$" => "/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1",
"^/forum/f([0-9]+)\/([a-z]+)([0-9]+).html$" => "/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$3",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-t([0-9]+)/page([0-9]+).html$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3&page=$4",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-t([0-9]+)/page([0-9]+).html(&page)=([0-9]+)$" => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3&page=$4",
"^/forum/([^/]+)/([^/]+)-t([0-9]+)/$"  => "/forum/showthread.php?t=$3",
"^/forum/f([^/]+)/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)\/post([0-9]+).html$" => "/forum/showpost.php?p=$4"
)

so on. This will work to VBulletin version 3.6.x and tfSEO version 1.1.3 in httpd webserver running on LXAdmin under Hyper VM.