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| +========
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| +lighttpd
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| +========
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| +
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| +-------------
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| +a light httpd
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| +-------------
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| +
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| +:author: Jan Kneschke
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| +:Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $
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| +:Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
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| +
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| +:abstract:
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| + lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server
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| + which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very
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| + low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load.
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| + Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,
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| + URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software
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| + for every server that is suffering load problems.
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| +
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| +the naming
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| +----------
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| +
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| +lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is
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| +
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| +- fast as __light__ning and
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| +- __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements
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| +
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| +Features
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| +--------
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| +
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| +Network
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| +```````
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| +
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| +- IPv4, IPv6
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| +Protocols
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| +`````````
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| +
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| +- HTTP/1.0 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt)
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| +- HTTP/1.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)
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| +- HTTPS (provided by openssl)
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| +- CGI/1.1 (http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/)
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| +- FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html)
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| +
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| +Advanced Features
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| +`````````````````
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| +
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| +- load-balanced FastCGI
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| + (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
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| +- custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599)
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| +- virtual hosts
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| +- directory listings
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| +- streaming CGI and FastCGI
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| +- URL-Rewriting
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| +- HTTP-Redirection
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| +- output-compression with transparent caching
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| +
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| +FastCGI-Support
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| +```````````````
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| +
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| +- parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly
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| +- Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header
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| +
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| +PHP-Support
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| +```````````
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| +
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| +- same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
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| +- handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI
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| +- includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x)
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| +
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| +Security features
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| +`````````````````
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| +
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| +- chroot(), set UID, set GID
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| +- protecting docroot
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| +
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| +HTTP/1.1 features
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| +`````````````````
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| +
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| +- Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
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| +- HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections
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| +- methods: GET, HEAD, POST
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| +- Last-Modified + If-Modified handling
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| +- sends Content-Length if possible
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| +- sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible
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| +- sends Content-Type
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| +- on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip)
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| +- authentication: basic and digest
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| + (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)
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| +
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| +HTTP/1.1 compliance
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| +```````````````````
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| +
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| +- Sends 206 for Range Requests
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| +- Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests
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| +- Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests
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| +- Sends 400 for broken Request-Line
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| +- Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests
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| +- Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header
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| +- Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD)
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| +- Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1
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| +- Sends Date: on every requests
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| +
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| +Intended Audience
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| +-----------------
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| +
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| +- Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder")
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| + - delivering small files rapidly
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| +- php-servers under high load
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| + (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers)
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| +
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| +Works with
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| +----------
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| +
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| +It has been tested to work with
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| +
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| +- IE 6.0
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| +- Mozilla 1.x
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| +- Konqueror 3.1
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| + (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)
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| +- wget
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| + (for Resuming)
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| +- acrobat plugin
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| + (for multiple ranges)
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| +
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| +
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| +Works on
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| +--------
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| +
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| +lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on
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| +
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| +- Linux
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| +- FreeBSD
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| +- NetBSD
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| +- Solaris 8 + 9
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| +- SGI IRIX 6.5
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| +
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| +missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance
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| +-------------------------------
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| +- parsing chunked POST request
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| +
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| +-----------------
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| +Starting lighttpd
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| +-----------------
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| +
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| +As daemon in the background: ::
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| +
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| + $ lighttpd -f <configfile>
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| +
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| +or without detaching from the console: ::
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| +
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| + $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile>
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