1 2======== 3lighttpd 4======== 5 6------------- 7a light httpd 8------------- 9 10:abstract: 11 lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server 12 which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very 13 low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. 14 Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, 15 URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software 16 for every server that is suffering load problems. 17 18:documentation: 19 https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/ 20 21the naming 22---------- 23 24lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is 25 26- fast as __light__ning and 27- __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements 28 29Features 30-------- 31 32Network 33``````` 34 35- IPv4, IPv6 36 37Protocols 38````````` 39 40- HTTP/2 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7540.txt) 41- HTTP/1.1 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt) 42- HTTP/1.0 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt) 43- HTTPS (via one of openssl, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, mbedTLS, wolfSSL, GnuTLS, NSS) 44- CGI/1.1 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875.txt) 45- FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html) 46 47Advanced Features 48````````````````` 49 50- load-balanced FastCGI, SCGI, reverse-proxy, socket proxy, websocket tunnel 51 (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI) 52- streaming FastCGI, SCGI, reverse-proxy, socket proxy, websocket tunnel 53- custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599) 54- virtual hosts 55- directory listings 56- URL-Rewriting 57- HTTP-Redirection 58- output-compression with transparent caching 59 60FastCGI-Support 61``````````````` 62 63- parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly 64- Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header 65 66PHP-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 73Security features 74````````````````` 75 76- chroot(), set UID, set GID 77- protecting docroot 78 79HTTP/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 93HTTP/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 106Intended 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 114Works with 115---------- 116 117It 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 129Works on 130-------- 131 132lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on 133 134- Linux 135- FreeBSD 136- NetBSD 137- OpenBSD 138- Solaris 8 + 9 139- SGI IRIX 6.5 140- Windows (when compiled under cygwin) 141(and will likely compile and run on most unix-like systems with C99 compiler) 142 143----------------- 144Starting lighttpd 145----------------- 146 147As daemon in the background: :: 148 149 $ lighttpd -f <configfile> 150 151or without detaching from the console: :: 152 153 $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile> 154 155 156