Lighttpd
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- The correct title of this article is lighttpd. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
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| Maintainer: | Jan Kneschke |
| Stable release: | 1.4.13 [+/-] |
| Preview release: | 1.5 [+/-] |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | web server |
| License: | BSD license |
| Website: | www.lighttpd.net |
lighttpd (also called "Lighty") is a web server which is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. lighttpd is free software / open source, and is distributed under the BSD license.
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[edit] Features
- Load-balancing FastCGI and SCGI support
- Constant memory footprint
chrootsupportselect()-/poll()-based web server- Support for more efficient event notification schemes like
kqueueandepoll - Conditional rewrites
- SSL support
- Authentication against a LDAP server
- rrdtool statistics
- Rule-based downloading
- Server-side includes support
- Virtual hosting
- Modules support
- Cache Meta Language
- Minimal WebDAV support
[edit] Application support
lighttpd supports the FastCGI, SCGI and CGI interfaces to external programs, permitting web applications written in any programming language to be used with this server. As a particularly popular language, PHP performance has received special attention. Additionally, it has received attention from its popularity within the Ruby on Rails community.
lighttpd runs on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows (with and without Cygwin).
[edit] See also
- Comparison of web servers
- Lighty Tray Windows system tray control program for Lighttpd
[edit] External links
- lighttpd web site, forum, and blog
- Lighttpd for Windows (Windows Port)
- freshmeat entry
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