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The latest WordPress Jetpack (4.3.1) is using <your-site>/wp-json/whatever/ for its api callback to the web server. It is an issue for web server not supporting .htaccess, and Lighttpd is one of them.

I end up with a lot of 404 errors in the access.log like the following one:

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[12/Oct/2016:17:54:58 -0400] "POST /wp-json/jetpack/v4/module/markdown/active HTTP/1.1" 404

Solution

To solve the issue I start exploring Lighttpd url.rewrite. After some research and a few tries, I finally come up with a working configuration:

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url.rewrite-if-not-file = ("^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1")