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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
156
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