Lighttpd 2.0 is work in progress - it is not finished and should not be used in a production environment
We do not provide any support for it until it is somewhat complete and ready for testing. Do NOT ask questions in the lighttpd forum.
Thanks for understanding.

Documentation¶

• Table of contents
• Documentation
• Community and Support
• Development
• Misc

• Deployment
  1. Installation
     • Checkout source: git clone git://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2 (use git pull to update it)
     • Build it
       • with cmake: mkdir cmakebuild && cd cmakebuild && cmake .. && make
       • with waf: ./waf configure --with-all build
  2. Configuration
• Tips - Best practices, useful tips for young and old
• Config - The config syntax and structure in detail
• Modules - Available modules
• Angel - Recommended supervisor for lighttpd
  • AngelConfig - The angel config syntax
• Howtos - Collection of different howtos
• Lua topics
  • LuaConfig - Write your config as lua script (basic concepts)
  • LuaAPI - Lua api reference
  • LuaExamples - Some examples what you can do with lua
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Bug Reporting - How to report a bug

Community and Support¶

Support is given via IRC and the forum. Bugreports are handled via the issue/ticket system.

• Forums
• IRC: Freenode channel #lighttpd

Development¶

• Plugins
  • Intro
  • API
  • Example plugin
  • FAQ
• Internals
  • Statemachine
  • Actions
  • ConfigInternals
  • Network Backends
  • VirtualRequests

Misc¶

• Promotional Artwork
• Sites using Lighttpd
• Benchmarks
• History

• Ideas
• Plans
• Todo
• Valgrind
• Using Clang Static Analyzer with cmake (http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/)