11 :Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $
12 :Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
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.
23 http://wiki.lighttpd.net/
28 lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is
30 - fast as __light__ning and
31 - __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements
44 - HTTP/1.0 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt)
45 - HTTP/1.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)
46 - HTTPS (provided by openssl)
47 - CGI/1.1 (http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/)
48 - FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html)
53 - load-balanced FastCGI
54 (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
55 - custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599)
58 - streaming CGI and FastCGI
61 - output-compression with transparent caching
66 - parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly
67 - Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header
72 - same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
73 - handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI
74 - includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x)
79 - chroot(), set UID, set GID
85 - Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
86 - HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections
87 - methods: GET, HEAD, POST
88 - Last-Modified + If-Modified handling
89 - sends Content-Length if possible
90 - sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible
92 - on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip)
93 - authentication: basic and digest
94 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)
99 - Sends 206 for Range Requests
100 - Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests
101 - Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests
102 - Sends 400 for broken Request-Line
103 - Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests
104 - Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header
105 - Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD)
106 - Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1
107 - Sends Date: on every requests
112 - Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder")
113 - delivering small files rapidly
114 - php-servers under high load
115 (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers)
120 It has been tested to work with
125 (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)
129 (for multiple ranges)
135 lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on
143 missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance
144 -------------------------------
145 - parsing chunked POST request
151 As daemon in the background: ::
153 $ lighttpd -f <configfile>
155 or without detaching from the console: ::
157 $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile>