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h1. Welcome to Lighttpd
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h2. Description
"lighttpd":https://www.lighttpd.net/ 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.
h2. Latest Release
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.*
h1. New Releases
* version:"1.4.59": 2021-02-02 - HTTP/2 enabled by default, mod_deflate zstd support, mod_ajp13 (new), bugfixes
h1. Documentation
h2. Get Lighttpd
* [[GetLighttpd|lighttpd binary packages]]
* [[InstallFromSource|lighttpd source code and build instructions]]
h2. Reference Documentation
* Configuration
** [[TutorialConfiguration|Configuration: [[TutorialConfiguration|Configuration Quick Start]]
* [[Docs|Configuration Overview]]
* Configuration Documentation
** [[Docs_Configuration|Configuration: [[Docs_Configuration|Configuration File Syntax]]
** [[Docs_ConfigurationOptions|Configuration: [[Docs_ConfigurationOptions|Configuration Options]]
** [[Docs_SSL|Configuration: TLS/SSL]] [[DebugVariables|Configuration Debug Variables]]
** [[DebugVariables|Configuration: Debug Variables]] "Sample Configuration File":https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/src/branch/master/doc/config/lighttpd.conf
* Help Reference
** IRC: "libera":https://libera.chat/, channel "#lighttpd":irc://irc.libera.chat/lighttpd
** "How to get help":https://redmine.lighttpd.net/boards/2/topics/5: tips for posting questions to support":https://redmine.lighttpd.net/boards/2/topics/5: *use the "Forums":https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/boards/2 "Forums":https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/boards/2*
** [[HowToReportABug|How to report a bug]]
Please use the "lighttpd issue tracker":/projects/lighttpd/issues to report bugs in lighttpd (and *please direct questions to the "Forums":https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/boards/2*)
If you feel that you should not make a bug report public, please send email to: security (at) lighttpd (dot) net
* Reference
** FAQ: [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions|Frequently Asked Questions]]
** HOWTOS: [[HowTos|How to ...]]
** [[Docs_Performance|Performance]]: Performance and Optimization Information.
** [[Docs_PerformanceFastCGI|Optimizing FastCGI]]
** [[Docs_SSL|SSL Documentation]]: Configuration and Options.
** [[Docs_TrafficShaping|Traffic Shaping]]: Bandwidth limit options.
** [[Docs_MultiProcessor|Using SMP]]: Multiprocessor options and problems.
** [[Devel|Developer Reference]] (developing and coding)
* [[Docs|Documentation Overview]] (site map)
FAQ: [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions|Frequently Asked Questions]]
* HOWTOS: [[HowTos|How to ...]]
h2. Community
* [[Tutorials]]
* IRC: "libera":https://libera.chat/, channel "#lighttpd":irc://irc.libera.chat/lighttpd
* [[Mailinglists]]
* CodeSnippets: "lighttpd section from CodeSnippets":http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/tag/lighttpd
* "Lighttpd related tips, howtos from the nixCraft":http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/category/lighttpd/
* "Lighttpd related tips, howtos from HowtoForge":http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/lighttpd/
* [[3rdPartySoftware|Other code contributions, extensions and useful tools]]
* [[AbsoLUAtion|Abso *lua* tion, or the power of Lighttpd + Lua: code-snippets, link-collection, small helpers or solutions]]
* "syntax file for vim":https://github.com/glensc/vim-syntax-lighttpd
* "A brief tutorial on Lighttpd MySQL Vhosts":http://www.thedotproduct.org/2010/06/vhost-config-from-sql-database-lighttpd-an-alternative-to-apache/
* Monitoring Lighttpd with Munin - "PyMunin":http://aouyar.github.com/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":http://wiki.joyent.com/shared:kb:rails-with-lighttpd
* "Lighttpd by Andre Bogus | Packt Publishing, July 2008":http://www.packtpub.com/lighttpd/book
h2. Developing Information
* [[Devel|Developing lighttpd]]
h2. h1. Propaganda
h2. Must Reads
* [[PoweredByLighttpd|PoweredByLighttpd]] - *a list of large sites running lighttpd*
* "Simplify Your Configfiles with Includes":https://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2005/11/25/simplify-your-configfiles-with-includes
* "Optimizing Lighty for high Concurrent Large File Downloads":https://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2005/11/11/optimizing-lighty-for-high-concurrent-large-file-downloads
* "Graceful Shutdown meets Graceful Restart":https://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2005/09/02/graceful-restart
* [[PromotionalArtwork|Promotional Artwork]]
h2. Benchmarks
Never blindly 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
h2. h1. Contributing
This wiki is open for everyone to provide help, grow and improve!