Configuration File Options¶

Here you will find a list of all available configuration lighttpd. They are grouped by module, and a link to each module configuration will provide with more detail information about each option, as well as examples, and other guidelines.

• Table of contents
• Configuration File Options
  • Lighttpd Core
    • SSL
    • Core Debug Info
  • mod_access - access restrictions
  • mod_accesslog - access log files
  • mod_alias - directory aliases
  • mod_auth - authentication
  • mod_cache - web accelerating
  • mod_cgi - cgi
  • mod_cml - Cache Meta Language
  • mod_compress - compress output
  • mod_deflate - dynamic compression (1.5.0)
  • mod_dirlisting - directory listing
  • mod_evasive - evasive (1.5.0)
  • mod_evhost - enhanced virtual host
  • mod_expire - cached expiration
  • mod_extforward - use X-Forwarded-For
  • mod_fastcgi - fastcgi
  • mod_flv_streaming - flv streaming
  • mod_indexfile - Precautions and documentation
  • mod_mem_cache - local file accelerating
  • mod_mimemagic - determines the MIME type of a file by looking at a few bytes of its contents
  • mod_mysql_vhost - Mysql virtual hosting
  • mod_proxy - proxy
  • mod_redirect - redirect
  • mod_rewrite - rewriting
  • mod_rrdtool - rrdtool
  • mod_scgi - SCGI
  • mod_secure_download - secure and fast download
  • mod_setenv - set HTTP Environment
  • mod_simple_vhost - simple virtual host
  • mod_ssi - server side includes
  • mod_status - server status
  • mod_trigger_b4_dl - trigger before download
  • mod_userdir - user directories
  • mod_uploadprogress - upload progress (1.5.0)
  • mod_usertrack - user track (cookies)
  • mod_webdav - WebDAV

Lighttpd Core¶

option	description	details
connection.kbytes-per-second	limit the throughput for each single connection to the given limit in kbyte/s	Details
etag.use-inode	Determines if inode-value is used in ETag generation	Details
etag.use-mtime	Determines if mtime-value is used in ETag generation	Details
etag.use-size	Determines if size-value is used in ETag generation	Details
index-file.names	list of files to search for if a directory is requested	Details
mimetype.assign	list of known mimetype mappings	Details
mimetype.use-xattr	try to use XFS-style extended attribute interface for retreiving the Content-Type	Details
server.bind	IP address, hostname or absolute path to the unix-domain socket	Details
server.chroot	root-directory of the server	Details
server.core-files	enable core files	Details
server.dir-listing	enable/disable dir listing	Details
server.document-root	document-root of the webserver	Details
server.errorfile-prefix	path prefix for special status codes pages	Details
server.error-handler-404	uri to call if the requested file results in a 404	Details
server.errorlog	pathname of the error-log	Details
server.errorlog-use-syslog*	send errorlog to syslog	Details
server.breakagelog	open as stderr, so all forked applications will write their errors to this (if stderr isn't handled otherwise via a pipe); needed to see mod_cgi stderr in 1.4
server.event-handler	set the event handler	Details
server.follow-symlink	allow to follow-symlinks	Details
server.force-lowercase-filenames	enable force all filenames to lowercase
server.groupname	groupname used to run the server	Details
server.kbytes-per-second	limit the throughput for all connections to the given limit in kbyte/s	Details
server.max-connections	maximum connections	Details
server.max-fds	maximum number of file descriptors	Details
server.max-keep-alive-idle	maximum number of seconds until a idling keep-alive connection is droped	Details
server.max-keep-alive-requests	maximum number of request within a keep-alive session	Details
server.max-read-idle	maximum number of seconds until a waiting, non keep-alive read times out and closes the connection	Details
server.max-request-size	maximum size in kbytes of the request	Details
server.max-worker	number of worker processes to spawn	Details
server.max-write-idle	maximum number of seconds until a waiting write call times out	Details
server.modules	modules to load	Details
server.name	name of the server/virtual server	Details
server.network-backend	basic network interface for all platforms at the syscalls read() and write()	Details
server.pid-file	set the name and location of the .pid-file	Details
server.protocol-http11	defines if HTTP/1.1 is allowed or not	Details
server.range-requests	defines if range requests are allowed or not	Details
server.reject-expect-100-with-417	setting to disable returning of a 417 if "Expect: 100-continue" header
server.stat-cache-engine	select stat() call caching	Details
server.tag	set the string returned by the server	Details
server.upload-dirs	path to upload directory	Details
server.use-ipv6	bind to the IPv6 socket	Details
server.username	username used to run the server	Details
static-file.etags	Determines if ETags are generated or not
static-file.exclude-extensions	forbid access to the source of some types of files by extension

SSL¶

option	description	details
ssl.engine	enable/disable ssl engine	Details
ssl.pemfile	path to the PEM file for SSL support	Details
ssl.ca-file	path to the CA file for support of chained certificates	Details
ssl.use-sslv2	enable/disable use of SSL version 2	Details
ssl.cipher-list	Configure the allowed SSL ciphers	Details
ssl.verifyclient.activate	enable/disable client verification	Details
ssl.verifyclient.enforce	enable/disable enforcing client verification	Details
ssl.verifyclient.depth	certificate depth for client verification	Details
ssl.verifyclient.exportcert	enable/disable client certificate export to env:SSL_CLIENT_CERT	Details
ssl.verifyclient.username	client certificate entity to export as env:REMOTE_USER (eg. SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_emailAddress, SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_UID, etc.)	Details

Core Debug Info¶

• Debug Variable Information

option	description
debug.log-request-header	log all request headers
debug.log-file-not-found	log if a file wasn't found
debug.log-condition-handling	log conditionals handling for debugging
debug.log-request-header-on-error	log request header, but only when there is an error
debug.log-request-handling	log request handling inside lighttpd
debug.log-state-handling	log state handling inside lighttpd
debug.log-response-header	log the header we send out to the client
debug.log-ssl-noise	log some ssl warnings we hide by default (ssl handshake, unknown/bad certificate)

mod_access - access restrictions¶

• mod_access documentation

option	description
url.access-deny	Denies access to all files with any of given trailing path names

mod_accesslog - access log files¶

• mod_accesslog documentation

option	description
accesslog.use-syslog	send the accesslog to syslog
accesslog.format	the format of the logfile
accesslog.filename	name of the file where the accesslog should be written to if syslog is not used

mod_alias - directory aliases¶

• mod_alias documentation

option	description
alias.url	rewrites the document-root for a URL-subset

mod_auth - authentication¶

• mod_auth documentation

option	description
auth.debug	enable/disable authentication module debug information
auth.backend	type of authentication backend
auth.require
auth.backend.ldap.hostname	hostname of ldap server
auth.backend.ldap.starttls
auth.backend.ldap.filter
auth.backend.ldap.bind-pw
auth.backend.ldap.ca-file
auth.backend.ldap.base-dn
auth.backend.ldap.bind-dn
auth.backend.plain.userfile	path to plain userfile
auth.backend.plain.groupfile	path to plain groupfile
auth.backend.htdigest.userfile	path to htdigest userfile
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile	path to htpassword userfile

mod_cache - web accelerating¶

• mod_cache documentation

option	description
cache.bases	directory arrays which want to save cache files
cache.enable
cache.domains	domain pcre regex arrays which mod_cache will cache
cache.support-queries
cache.debug	writes mod_cache debuging messages to error.log or not
cache.purge-host	pcre regex hosts ip which are allowed to PURGE cache file
cache.refresh-pattern

mod_cgi - cgi¶

• mod_cgi documentation

option	description
cgi.assign	assign cgi handler to an extension
cgi.execute-x-only	requires +x for cgi scripts

mod_cml - Cache Meta Language¶

• mod_cml documentation

option	description
cml.memcache-namespace	(not used yet)
cml.power-magnet	a cml file that is executed for each request
cml.memcache-hosts	hosts for the memcache.* functions
cml.extension	the file extension that is bound to the cml-module

mod_compress - compress output¶

• mod_compress documentation

option	description
compress.max-filesize	maximum size of the original file to be compressed kBytes
compress.cache-dir	name of the directory where compressed content will be cached
compress.filetype	mimetypes which might get compressed

mod_deflate - dynamic compression (1.5.0)¶

• mod_deflate documentation (patch available for 1.4.x)

option	description
deflate.enabled	enable/disable deflate support
deflate.compression-level	level of compression
deflate.mem-level
deflate.window-size
deflate.bzip2	enable/disable bzip support
deflate.min-compress-size	minimum size document before compressing
deflate.sync-flush	enable sync flush
deflate.output-buffer-size	size of buffer for compression
deflate.work-block-size	minimum block size for compression
deflate.mimetypes	mimetype listing to be compressed.
deflate.debug	enable debug

mod_dirlisting - directory listing¶

• mod_dirlisting documentation

option	description
server.dir-listing*: enable/disable directory listing
dir-listing.activate	enables virtual directory listings if a directory is requested no index-file was found
dir-listing.external-css	path to an external css stylesheet for the directory listing
dir-listing.encoding	set a encoding for the generated directory listing
dir-listing.hide-dotfiles	if enabled, does not list hidden files in directory listings generated by the dir-listing option
dir-listing.show-header	include HEADER.txt files above the directory listing
dir-listing.hide-header-file	enables hide header file from directory listing
dir-listing.show-readme	include README.txt files below the directory listing
dir-listing.hide-readme-file	enables displaying readme file in directory listing
dir-listing.exclude	files that match any of the specified regular expressions will be excluded from listings
dir-listing.set-footer	displays a string in the footer of a listing page

mod_evasive - evasive (1.5.0)¶

option	description
evasive.max-conns-per-ip	upper limit of number of connections per ip allowed

• mod_evasive documentation

mod_evhost - enhanced virtual host¶

• mod_evhost documentation

option	description
evhost.path-pattern	pattern with wildcards to be replace to build a documentroot

mod_expire - cached expiration¶

• mod_expire documentation

option	description
expire.url	assignes a expiration to all files below the specified path

mod_extforward - use X-Forwarded-For¶

• mod_extforward documentation

extract the client's "real" IP from X-Forwarded-For header

option	description
extforward.forwarder	set trust level of proxy ip's

mod_fastcgi - fastcgi¶

• mod_fastcgi documentation

option	description
fastcgi.map-extensions	map multiple extensions to the same fastcgi server
fastcgi.debug	a value between 0 and 65535 to set the debug-level in the FastCGI module
fastcgi.server	tell the module where to send FastCGI requests to

fastcgi.server-option	description
host	is ip of the FastCGI process
port	is tcp-port on the "host" used by the FastCGI process
socket	path to the unix-domain socket
bin-path	path to the local FastCGI binary which should be started if no local FastCGI is running
bin-environment	set environment of FastCGI binary
bin-copy-environment	copy environment from server for FastCGI binary
mode	is the FastCGI protocol mode. Default is "responder", also "authorizer" mode is implemented
docroot	docroot on the remote host
allow-x-send-file	controls if X-LIGHTTPD-send-file and X-Sendfile headers are allowed
broken-scriptfilename	breaks SCRIPT_FILENAME in a way that PHP can extract PATH_INFO from it
max-procs	upper limit of processes to start
check-local	enable/disable check for requested file in document root
disable-time	time to wait before a disabled backend is checked again
strip-request-uri	strip part of request-uri
fix-root-scriptname	use this for backends with extension "/" (and check-local is disabled), only works > 1.4.22

mod_flv_streaming - flv streaming¶

flv-streaming.extensions: extensions of flv files

Blog Entry

Additional Information

Flash Video Player 3.5

mod_indexfile - Precautions and documentation¶

• mod_indexfile documentation

mod_mem_cache - local file accelerating¶

• mod_mem_cache documentation

option	description
mem-cache.filetypes	content-type arrays which want to put into memory
mem-cache.enable
mem-cache.max-memory	maxium memory in Mbytes mod-mem-cache can use
mem-cache.max-file-size	maxium file size in Kbytes of single file to cache in memory
mem-cache.lru-remove-count
mem-cache.expire-time	memory cache's expire time in minutes
mem-cache.slru-thresold	slru threshold (against hit counter)

mod_mimemagic - determines the MIME type of a file by looking at a few bytes of its contents¶

• mod_mimemagic documentation

option	description
mimemagic.file	path of magic.mime file
mimemagic.override-global-mimetype

mod_mysql_vhost - Mysql virtual hosting¶

• mod_mysql_vhost documentation

option	description
mysql-vhost.hostname	hostname of mysql server
mysql-vhost.db	database name
mysql-vhost.user	username to access database
mysql-vhost.pass	password to access database
mysql-vhost.sql	SQL statement to execute to obtain docroot
mysql-vhost.port	port where to connect to database
mysql-vhost.sock	socket where to connect to database

mod_proxy - proxy¶

• mod_proxy documentation

option	description
proxy.balance	select type of balancing algorithm (round-robin, hash, fair)
proxy.debug	enable/disable proxy debug information
proxy.server	where to send Proxy requests

proxy.server-option	description
host	ip of host to send requests
port	listening port of host

mod_redirect - redirect¶

• mod_redirect documentation

option	description	note
url.redirect	redirects a set of URLs externally
url.redirect-code	defines the http code that is sent with the redirect URL	Added in 1.5.0

mod_rewrite - rewriting¶

• mod_rewrite documentation

option	description
url.rewrite-once	rewrites a set of URLs internally and skip the rest
url.rewrite-repeat	rewrites a set of URLs internally in the webserver, continue applying rewrite rules
url.rewrite	same as url.rewrite-once
url.rewrite-final	same as url.rewrite-once
url.rewrite-[repeat-]if-not-file	rewrites a set of urls internally and checks if files do not exist

mod_rrdtool - rrdtool¶

• mod_rrdtool documentation

option	description
rrdtool.db-name	filename of the rrd-database
rrdtool.binary	path to the rrdtool binary

mod_scgi - SCGI¶

• mod_scgi documentation

option	description
scgi.map-extensions	map multiple extensions to the same scgi server
scgi.debug	a value between 0 and 65535 to set the debug-level in the SCGI module
scgi.server	tell the module where to send SCGI requests to

scgi.server-option	description
host	is ip of the SCGI process
port	is tcp-port on the "host" used by the SCGI process
socket	path to the unix-domain socket
bin-path	path to the local SCGI binary which should be started if no local SCGI is running
bin-environment	set environment of SCGI binary
bin-copy-environment	copy environment from server for SCGI binary
docroot	docroot on the remote host
allow-x-send-file	controls if X-LIGHTTPD-send-file and X-Sendfile headers are allowed
broken-scriptfilename	breaks SCRIPT_FILENAME in a way that PHP can extract PATH_INFO from it
idle-timeout	number of seconds before a unused process gets terminated
max-procs	upper limit of processes to start
min-procs	sets the minium processes to start
min-procs-not-working
max-load-per-proc	maximum number of waiting processes on average per process before a new process is spawned
check-local	enable/disable check for requested file in document root
disable-time	time to wait before a disabled backend is checked again
strip-request-uri	strip part of request-uri

mod_secure_download - secure and fast download¶

• mod_secure_download documentation

option	description
secdownload.document-root	path to the download area
secdownload.timeout	how long in seconds is the secret valid
secdownload.uri-prefix	prefix to url for download
secdownload.secret	Secret string that will be used for the checksum calculation

mod_setenv - set HTTP Environment¶

• mod_setenv documentation

option	description
setenv.add-response-header	adds a value to the process environment that is passed to the external applications
setenv.add-request-header	adds a header to the HTTP response sent to the client
setenv.add-environment	adds a value to the process environment that is passed to the external applications

mod_simple_vhost - simple virtual host¶

• mod_simple_vhost documentation

option	description
simple-vhost.document-root	path below the vhost directory
simple-vhost.server-root	root of the virtual host
simple-vhost.default-host	use this hostname if the requested hostname does not have its own directory
simple-vhost.debug	debug simple vhosts module

mod_ssi - server side includes¶

• mod_ssi documentation

option	description
ssi.extension	extension of files processed by mod_ssi

mod_status - server status¶

• mod_status documentation

option	description
status.config-url	relative URL for the config page which displays the loaded modules
status.statistics-url	relative URL for a plain-text page containing the internal statistics
status.enable-sort	add JavaScript which allows client-side sorting for the connection overview
status.status-url	relative URL which is used to retrieve the status-page

mod_trigger_b4_dl - trigger before download¶

• mod_trigger_b4_dl documentation

option	description
trigger-before-download.trigger-url	url for trigger pages
trigger-before-download.trigger-timeout	time for download link to live
trigger-before-download.download-url	url for downloads
trigger-before-download.deny-url	url to show when visitor denied a download
trigger-before-download.gdbm-filename	path to gdm file
trigger-before-download.memcache-hosts	hosts for the memcache.* functions
trigger-before-download.memcache-namespace	(not used yet)
trigger-before-download.debug

mod_userdir - user directories¶

• mod_userdir documentation

option	description
userdir.basepath	if set, don't check /etc/passwd for homedir
userdir.exclude-user	list of usernames which may not use this feature
userdir.path	usually it should be set to "public_html" to take ~/public_html/ as the document root
userdir.include-user	if set, only users from this list may use the feature

mod_uploadprogress - upload progress (1.5.0)¶

option	description
upload-progress.progress-url

mod_usertrack - user track (cookies)¶

• mod_usertrack documentation

option	description
usertrack.cookie-name
~'_usertrack.cookiename_'~	(deprecated)
usertrack.cookie-domain
usertrack.cookie-max-age

mod_webdav - WebDAV¶

• mod_webdav documentation

option	description
webdav.activate	enable/disable WebDAV
webdav.is-readonly	enable/disable read only
webdav.sqlite-db-name	pathname to SQLite database
webdav.log-xml	Log the XML Request bodies for debugging