Why rewrite not needed in lighttpd?

Hi all,

My wordpress is running smoothly on lighttpd but I’m just curious about why it’s running … 🙂

I only have two options for my domain in lighttpd.conf:

$HTTP["host"] == "thinlight.org" {
  server.document-root = "/my/doc/root"
  server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php?error=404"
}

Of course “index.php” is in the index-file.names list.

But how can urls like “http://thinlight.org/2009/12/26/lighttpd-web-py-spawning-fcgi-failed/” be resolved?

Thanks.