Welcome to Lighttpd¶

• Table of contents
• Welcome to Lighttpd
  • Description
• New Releases
• Documentation
  • Get Lighttpd
  • Reference Documentation
  • Community
  • Developing Information
• Propaganda
  • Must Reads
  • Benchmarks
• Contributing

Description¶

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems.

For more info go to https://www.lighttpd.net/

We have nothing to hide, so please use our bugtracker for all kinds of bugs you find (hopefully not too much :-)), if you feel you shouldn´t make it public you can also mail to: security (at) lighttpd (dot) net.

New Releases¶

• 1.4.59: 2021-02-02 - HTTP/2 enabled by default, mod_deflate zstd support, mod_ajp13 (new), bugfixes

Documentation¶

Get Lighttpd¶

• lighttpd binary packages
• lighttpd source code and build instructions

Reference Documentation¶

• Configuration Overview

• Configuration Documentation
  • lighttpd configuration introduction
  • Configuration File Syntax
  • Configuration Options
  • Sample Configuration File

• Reference
  • Performance: Performance and Optimization Information.
  • Optimizing FastCGI
  • SSL Documentation: Configuration and Options.
  • Traffic Shaping: Bandwidth limit options.
  • Using SMP: Multiprocessor options and problems.

• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• HOWTOS: How to ...

Community¶

• Tutorials
• IRC: libera, channel #lighttpd
• Mailinglists
• CodeSnippets: lighttpd section from CodeSnippets
• Lighttpd related tips, howtos from the nixCraft
• Lighttpd related tips, howtos from HowtoForge
• Other code contributions, extensions and useful tools
• Abso lua tion, or the power of Lighttpd + Lua: code-snippets, link-collection, small helpers or solutions
• syntax file for vim
• A brief tutorial on Lighttpd MySQL Vhosts
• Monitoring Lighttpd with Munin - PyMunin is a python module for developing Multigraph Monitoring Plugins for Munin and includes a plugin for Lighttpd.

Two full-fledged books covering lighttpd and Rails:

• Lighttpd: The painless way
• Lighttpd by Andre Bogus | Packt Publishing, July 2008

Developing Information¶

• lighttpd source code and build instructions
• Developing lighttpd
• How to Report a Bug
• Debug Variables for Configuration File

Propaganda¶

Must Reads¶

• PoweredByLighttpd - a list of large sites running lighttpd
• Simplify Your Configfiles with Includes
• Optimizing Lighty for high Concurrent Large File Downloads
• Graceful Shutdown meets Graceful Restart
• Promotional Artwork

Benchmarks¶

Never trust us when we say that lighttpd is fast. Do your own benchmarks and feel for yourself how everything gets faster. If you just want to see some numbers, take a look at our benchmarks:

• our very own web-server shootout https://www.lighttpd.net/benchmark/
• Apache is sometimes better http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2005/06/24/debunking-lighttpd

Contributing¶

This wiki is open for everyone to provide help, grow and improve!