SABnzbd + Lighttpd on Debian Lenny Using mod_proxy

[alghanmi]

I have been trying to get SABnzbd to work with a Lighttpd proxy with no success. Everything was working fine with Apache ProxyPass, but not with Lighttpd. A Google search led me to a forum post titled TUTORIAL: Securing SABnzbd+ behind lighttpd authentication, however, it did not work for me. I would appreciate some help on this.

Software:

• lighttpd-1.4.19: from stable (lenny) repository
• sabnzbdplus-0.5.4: from testing (squeeze) repository
• Debian 5.0.6 a.k.a. lenny

Configuration Highlights
Debian

• Standard VPS installation
• Firewall disabled
• The following packages were installed: sabnzbdplus sabnzbdplus-theme-classic sabnzbdplus-theme-plush sabnzbdplus-theme-mobile python-cheetah python-configobj python-feedparser python-support python-openssl python-yenc par2 unzip zip unrar unace

SABnzbd:

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% cat /etc/default/sabnzbdplus | grep -v '^$\|^#'
USER=www-data
CONFIG=/home/www/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini
HOST=0.0.0.0
PORT=8080
EXTRAOPTS=-l2

Lighttpd:
Here are the relevant parts

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server.modules = ( "mod_access", "mod_alias", "mod_accesslog", "mod_compress", "mod_auth", "mod_proxy", "mod_redirect", "mod_rewrite" )
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^sub\.domain\.com$" {
    # Some host specific configuration like logs & document-root
    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/nzb/$" {
        proxy.debug = 2
        proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 8080 ) ) )
    }
}

Current System Status
What Works
SABnzbd works when accessed from the local machine using the following methods:

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%curl http://sub.domain.com:8080
%curl http://localhost:8080

What Doesn't Works
When accessing SABnzbd from localhost or a remote machine, the following will not work

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%curl http://sub.domain.com/nzb/

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As you can see, I simple get the White Screen of Death (WSoD).

I found out that, as far as I could tell, lighttpd is forwarding the request to SABnzbd. Here is a snippet from the lighttpd access log:

"GET /nzb/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12 "-" "curl/7.18.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18"

I get the following in the lighttpd error logs (because I enabled mod_proxy debugging):

2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.1080) proxy - start
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.1118) proxy - ext found
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.1161) proxy - used fair balancing
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.1242) proxy - found a host 127.0.0.1 8080
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.377) connect delayed: 9
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.994) proxy: fdevent-out 1
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.805) proxy - connect - delayed success
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.961) proxy: fdevent-in 4
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.645) proxy - have to read: 251
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.961) proxy: fdevent-in 4
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.645) proxy - have to read: 12
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.961) proxy: fdevent-in 4
2010-11-01 00:15:46: (mod_proxy.c.645) proxy - have to read: 0

The sabnzbd.error.log has the following error once for every http session requesting the above URL:

/usr/share/sabnzbdplus/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py:196: DeprecationWarning: 'l' format requires -2147483648 <= number <= 2147483647 yield struct.pack("<l", crc)

I have spent too much time trying to resolve this issue  ???. I am seeking your assistance now.