Lighttpd

lighttpd seems very fast for most files. BMP's however take an extremely long time to present themselves??
here's my conf file:

1. lighttpd configuration file #
2. use a it as base for lighttpd 1.0.0 and above #
3. $Id: lighttpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/11/03 22:26:05 weigon Exp $

1. Options you really have to take care of ####################

1. modules to load

1. at least mod_access and mod_accesslog should be loaded
2. all other module should only be loaded if really neccesary
3. - saves some time
4. - saves memory
   server.modules = (
5. "mod_rewrite",
6. "mod_redirect",
7. "mod_alias",
   "mod_access",
8. "mod_cml",
9. "mod_trigger_b4_dl",
10. "mod_auth",
    "mod_status",
11. "mod_setenv",
12. "mod_fastcgi",
13. "mod_proxy",
14. "mod_simple_vhost",
15. "mod_evhost",
16. "mod_userdir",
17. "mod_cgi",
18. "mod_compress",
19. "mod_ssi",
20. "mod_usertrack",
21. "mod_expire",
22. "mod_secdownload",
23. "mod_rrdtool",
    "mod_accesslog" )

1. a static document-root, for virtual-hosting take look at the
2. server.virtual-* options
   server.document-root = "/usr/local/lighttpd/web/"

1. where to send error-messages to
   server.errorlog = "/usr/local/lighttpd/logs/lighttpd.error.log"

1. files to check for if .../ is requested
   server.indexfiles = ( "index.php", "index.html",
   "index.htm", "default.htm" )

1. mimetype mapping
   mimetype.assign = (
   ".pdf" => "application/pdf",
   ".sig" => "application/pgp-signature",
   ".spl" => "application/futuresplash",
   ".class" => "application/octet-stream",
   ".ps" => "application/postscript",
   ".torrent" => "application/x-bittorrent",
   ".dvi" => "application/x-dvi",
   ".gz" => "application/x-gzip",
   ".pac" => "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig",
   ".swf" => "application/x-shockwave-flash",
   ".tar.gz" => "application/x-tgz",
   ".tgz" => "application/x-tgz",
   ".tar" => "application/x-tar",
   ".zip" => "application/zip",
   ".mp3" => "audio/mpeg",
   ".m3u" => "audio/x-mpegurl",
   ".wma" => "audio/x-ms-wma",
   ".wax" => "audio/x-ms-wax",
   ".ogg" => "application/ogg",
   ".wav" => "audio/x-wav",
   ".gif" => "image/gif",
   ".bmp" => "image/jpeg",
   ".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
   ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
   ".png" => "image/png",
   ".xbm" => "image/x-xbitmap",
   ".xpm" => "image/x-xpixmap",
   ".xwd" => "image/x-xwindowdump",
   ".css" => "text/css",
   ".html" => "text/html",
   ".htm" => "text/html",
   ".js" => "text/javascript",
   ".asc" => "text/plain",
   ".c" => "text/plain",
   ".cpp" => "text/plain",
   ".log" => "text/plain",
   ".conf" => "text/plain",
   ".text" => "text/plain",
   ".txt" => "text/plain",
   ".dtd" => "text/xml",
   ".xml" => "text/xml",
   ".mpeg" => "video/mpeg",
   ".mpg" => "video/mpeg",
   ".mov" => "video/quicktime",
   ".qt" => "video/quicktime",
   ".avi" => "video/x-msvideo",
   ".asf" => "video/x-ms-asf",
   ".asx" => "video/x-ms-asf",
   ".wmv" => "video/x-ms-wmv",
   ".bz2" => "application/x-bzip",
   ".tbz" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
   ".tar.bz2" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar"
   )

1. Use the "Content-Type" extended attribute to obtain mime type if possible
   #mimetype.use-xattr = "enable"

1. send a different Server: header
2. be nice and keep it at lighttpd
   #server.tag = "lighttpd"

1. accesslog module
   accesslog.filename = "/usr/local/lighttpd/logs/access.log"

1. deny access the file-extensions #

1. ~ is for backupfiles from vi, emacs, joe, ...
2. .inc is often used for code includes which should in general not be part
3. of the document-root
   #url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )

#$HTTPurl =~ "\.pdf$" {

1. server.range-requests = "disable"
   #}

1. Options that are good to be but not neccesary to be changed #######

1. bind to port (default: 80)
   #server.port = 81

1. bind to localhost (default: all interfaces)
   #server.bind = "grisu.home.kneschke.de"

1. error-handler for status 404
   #server.error-handler-404 = "/error-handler.html"
   #server.error-handler-404 = "/error-handler.php"

1. to help the rc.scripts
   #server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"

1. virtual hosts ##

1. If you want name-based virtual hosting add the next three settings and load
2. mod_simple_vhost ##
3. document-root =
4. virtual-server-root + virtual-server-default-host + virtual-server-docroot
5. or
6. virtual-server-root + http-host + virtual-server-docroot ##
   #simple-vhost.server-root = "/home/weigon/wwwroot/servers/"
   #simple-vhost.default-host = "grisu.home.kneschke.de"
   #simple-vhost.document-root = "/pages/"

##

1. Format: <errorfile-prefix><status-code>.html
2. > ..../status-404.html for 'File not found'
   #server.errorfile-prefix = "/home/weigon/projects/lighttpd/doc/status"

1. virtual directory listings
   server.dir-listing = "enable"

1. enable debugging
   #debug.log-request-header = "enable"
   #debug.log-response-header = "enable"
   #debug.log-request-handling = "enable"
   #debug.log-file-not-found = "enable"

1. only root can use these options #

1. chroot() to directory (default: no chroot() )
   #server.chroot = "/"

1. change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
   #server.username = "wwwrun"

1. change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
   #server.groupname = "wwwrun"

1. compress module
   #compress.cache-dir = "/tmp/lighttpd/cache/compress/"
   #compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html")

1. proxy module

1. read proxy.txt for more info
   #proxy.server = ( ".php" =>

1. ( "localhost" =>
2. (
3. "host" => "192.168.0.101",
4. "port" => 80
5. )
6. )
7. )

1. fastcgi module

1. read fastcgi.txt for more info
   #fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>

1. ( "localhost" =>
2. (
3. "socket" => "/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket",
4. "bin-path" => "/usr/local/bin/php"
5. )
6. )
7. )

1. CGI module
   #cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl",

1. ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" ) #

1. SSL engine
   #ssl.engine = "enable"
   #ssl.pemfile = "server.pem"

1. status module
   status.status-url = "/server-status"
   status.config-url = "/server-config"

1. auth module

1. read authentication.txt for more info
   #auth.backend = "plain"
   #auth.backend.plain.userfile = "lighttpd.user"
   #auth.backend.plain.groupfile = "lighttpd.group"

#auth.backend.ldap.hostname = "localhost"
#auth.backend.ldap.base-dn = "dc=my-domain,dc=com"
#auth.backend.ldap.filter = "(uid=$)"

#auth.require = ( "/server-status" =>

1. (
2. "method" => "digest",
3. "realm" => "download archiv",
4. "require" => "user=jan"
5. ),
6. "/server-info" =>
7. (
8. "method" => "digest",
9. "realm" => "download archiv",
10. "require" => "valid-user"
11. )
12. )

1. url handling modules (rewrite, redirect, access)
   #url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "/server-status" )
   #url.redirect = ( "^/wishlist/(.+)" => "http://www.123.org/$1" )

#

1. define a pattern for the host url finding
2. %% => % sign
3. %0 => domain name + tld
4. %1 => tld
5. %2 => domain name without tld
6. %3 => subdomain 1 name
7. %4 => subdomain 2 name #
   #evhost.path-pattern = "/home/storage/dev/www/%3/htdocs/"

1. expire module
   #expire.url = ( "/buggy/" => "access 2 hours", "/asdhas/" => "access plus 1 seconds 2 minutes")

1. ssi
   #ssi.extension = ( ".shtml" )

1. rrdtool
   #rrdtool.binary = "/usr/bin/rrdtool"
   #rrdtool.db-name = "/var/www/lighttpd.rrd"

1. setenv
   #setenv.add-request-header = ( "TRAV_ENV" => "mysql://user@host/db" )
   #setenv.add-response-header = ( "X-Secret-Message" => "42" )

1. for mod_trigger_b4_dl

1. trigger-before-download.gdbm-filename = "/home/weigon/testbase/trigger.db"
2. trigger-before-download.memcache-hosts = ( "127.0.0.1:11211" )
3. trigger-before-download.trigger-url = "^/trigger/"
4. trigger-before-download.download-url = "^/download/"
5. trigger-before-download.deny-url = "http://127.0.0.1/index.html"
6. trigger-before-download.trigger-timeout = 10

1. for mod_cml
2. don't forget to add index.cml to server.indexfiles

1. cml.extension = ".cml"
2. cml.memcache-hosts = ( "127.0.0.1:11211" )

Thanks for the help

-- lwm