Product: lighttpd

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 12:27AM
Todd Hoff in Light Weight Web Server, Product, Web Server, lighttpd

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. lighttpd runs on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows.

• Load-balancing FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP-proxy support
• chroot support
• select()-/poll()-based web server
• Support for more efficient event notification schemes like kqueue and epoll
• Conditional rewrites (mod_rewrite)
• SSL and TLS support, via openSSL.
• Authentication against an LDAP server
• rrdtool statistics
• Rule-based downloading with possibility of a script handling only authentication
• Server-side includes support
• Flexible virtual hosting
•  Modules support
• Cache Meta Language (currently being replaced by mod_magnet)
• Minimal WebDAV support
• Servlet (AJP) support (in versions 1.5.x and up)
• HTTP compression using mod_compress and the newer mod_deflate ( 1.5.x )

 

Information Sources

 

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighttpd
• http://highscalability.com/paper-lightweight-web-servers

 

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).