development adventures

Lighttpd and ClickOnce

Although it might seem that you can only use ClickOnce installers with IIS, it’s not true, as all you need to do is set some mime-types in your lighttpd configuration: 

mimetype.assign = (
".application" => "application/x-ms-application",
".manifest" => "application/x-ms-manifest",
".deploy" => "application/octet-stream"
)

This should actually work with any other webserver, as long as you’re able to configure mime-types.