1 .TH LIGHTTPD "8" "2009-03-07" "" ""
4 lighttpd \- a fast, secure and flexible web server
7 \fBlighttpd\fP [\fB\-ptDvVh\fP] \fB\-f\fP \fIconfigfile\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fImoduledir\fP]
10 \fBlighttpd\fP (pronounced 'lighty') is an advanced HTTP daemon that aims
11 to be secure, fast, compliant and very flexible. It has been optimized for
12 high performance. Its feature set includes, but is not limited to, FastCGI,
13 CGI, basic and digest HTTP authentication, output compression, URL rewriting.
15 This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details
16 on how to configure \fBlighttpd\fP and its modules see the files in the
20 The following options are supported:
22 \fB\-f\ \fP \fIconfigfile\fP
23 Load configuration file \fIconfigfile\fP.
25 \fB\-m\ \fP \fImoduledir\fP
28 as the directory that contains modules, instead of the default.
31 Print the parsed configuration file in its internal form and exit.
34 Test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit.
37 Test the configuration file for syntax errors, load and initialize modules, and exit.
40 Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemonize.
42 \fB\-i\ \fP \fIsecs\fP
43 Trigger daemon graceful shutdown after \fIsecs\fP of inactivity.
46 Process single (one) request on stdin socket, then exit.
49 Show version and exit.
52 Show compile-time features and exit.
55 Show a brief help message and exit.
59 /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
60 The standard location for the configuration file.
63 The standard location for the PID of the running \fBlighttpd\fP process.
66 Online Documentation: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/
70 \fIHypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1\fP, RFC 2616.
72 \fIHTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication\fP, RFC 2617.
74 \fIThe Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1\fP, RFC 3875.
76 \fIThe FastCGI specification\fP.
79 Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de>