Lighttpd

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lighttpd
Maintainer:	Jan Kneschke
Stable release:	1.4.13 _[+/-]
Preview release:	1.5 _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	web server
License:	BSD license
Website:	www.lighttpd.net

lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server which is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. lighttpd is free software / open source, and is distributed under the BSD license.

1 Features
2 Application support
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Features

Load-balancing FastCGI and SCGI support
chroot support
select()-/poll()-based web server
Support for more efficient event notification schemes like kqueue and epoll
Conditional rewrites
SSL support
Authentication against a LDAP server
rrdtool statistics
Rule-based downloading
Server-side includes support
Virtual hosting
Modules support
Cache Meta Language
Minimal WebDAV support
Servlet (AJP) support (in versions 1.5.x and up)

[edit] Application support

lighttpd supports the FastCGI, SCGI and CGI interfaces to external programs, permitting web applications written in any programming language to be used with this server. As a particularly popular language, PHP performance has received special attention. Additionally, it has received attention from its popularity within the Ruby on Rails and Lua communities.

lighttpd runs on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows (with and without Cygwin).