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| 2 ======== |
| 3 lighttpd |
| 4 ======== |
| 5 |
| 6 ------------- |
| 7 a light httpd |
| 8 ------------- |
| 9 |
| 10 :author: Jan Kneschke |
| 11 :Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $ |
| 12 :Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $ |
| 13 |
| 14 :abstract: |
| 15 lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server |
| 16 which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very |
| 17 low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. |
| 18 Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, |
| 19 URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software |
| 20 for every server that is suffering load problems. |
| 21 |
| 22 the naming |
| 23 ---------- |
| 24 |
| 25 lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is |
| 26 |
| 27 - fast as __light__ning and |
| 28 - __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements |
| 29 |
| 30 Features |
| 31 -------- |
| 32 |
| 33 Network |
| 34 ``````` |
| 35 |
| 36 - IPv4, IPv6 |
| 37 |
| 38 Protocols |
| 39 ````````` |
| 40 |
| 41 - HTTP/1.0 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt) |
| 42 - HTTP/1.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt) |
| 43 - HTTPS (provided by openssl) |
| 44 - CGI/1.1 (http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/) |
| 45 - FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html) |
| 46 |
| 47 Advanced Features |
| 48 ````````````````` |
| 49 |
| 50 - load-balanced FastCGI |
| 51 (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI) |
| 52 - custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599) |
| 53 - virtual hosts |
| 54 - directory listings |
| 55 - streaming CGI and FastCGI |
| 56 - URL-Rewriting |
| 57 - HTTP-Redirection |
| 58 - output-compression with transparent caching |
| 59 |
| 60 FastCGI-Support |
| 61 ``````````````` |
| 62 |
| 63 - parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly |
| 64 - Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header |
| 65 |
| 66 PHP-Support |
| 67 ``````````` |
| 68 |
| 69 - same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4 |
| 70 - handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI |
| 71 - includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x) |
| 72 |
| 73 Security features |
| 74 ````````````````` |
| 75 |
| 76 - chroot(), set UID, set GID |
| 77 - protecting docroot |
| 78 |
| 79 HTTP/1.1 features |
| 80 ````````````````` |
| 81 |
| 82 - Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges) |
| 83 - HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections |
| 84 - methods: GET, HEAD, POST |
| 85 - Last-Modified + If-Modified handling |
| 86 - sends Content-Length if possible |
| 87 - sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible |
| 88 - sends Content-Type |
| 89 - on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip) |
| 90 - authentication: basic and digest |
| 91 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt) |
| 92 |
| 93 HTTP/1.1 compliance |
| 94 ``````````````````` |
| 95 |
| 96 - Sends 206 for Range Requests |
| 97 - Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests |
| 98 - Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests |
| 99 - Sends 400 for broken Request-Line |
| 100 - Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests |
| 101 - Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header |
| 102 - Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD) |
| 103 - Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 |
| 104 - Sends Date: on every requests |
| 105 |
| 106 Intended Audience |
| 107 ----------------- |
| 108 |
| 109 - Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder") |
| 110 - delivering small files rapidly |
| 111 - php-servers under high load |
| 112 (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers) |
| 113 |
| 114 Works with |
| 115 ---------- |
| 116 |
| 117 It has been tested to work with |
| 118 |
| 119 - IE 6.0 |
| 120 - Mozilla 1.x |
| 121 - Konqueror 3.1 |
| 122 (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip) |
| 123 - wget |
| 124 (for Resuming) |
| 125 - acrobat plugin |
| 126 (for multiple ranges) |
| 127 |
| 128 |
| 129 Works on |
| 130 -------- |
| 131 |
| 132 lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on |
| 133 |
| 134 - Linux |
| 135 - FreeBSD |
| 136 - NetBSD |
| 137 - Solaris 8 + 9 |
| 138 - SGI IRIX 6.5 |
| 139 |
| 140 missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance |
| 141 ------------------------------- |
| 142 - parsing chunked POST request |
| 143 |
| 144 ----------------- |
| 145 Starting lighttpd |
| 146 ----------------- |
| 147 |
| 148 As daemon in the background: :: |
| 149 |
| 150 $ lighttpd -f <configfile> |
| 151 |
| 152 or without detaching from the console: :: |
| 153 |
| 154 $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile> |
| 155 |
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