Say you have a case where you need to redirect all traffic from one site to some other site. For example, when your site is down temporarily for maintenance.

3 little lines is all the lighttpd config you need:
server.modules = ( "mod_redirect")
server.document-root = "/www/"
url.redirect = ( "^.*$" => "http://someotherhostname/dira/dirb/" )

The stop and start lighttpd, starting with the new config file:

lighttpd -f down.conf

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