lighttpd

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Lighttpd
Lighttpd logo.png
Original author(s) Jan Kneschke
Developer(s) Lighttpd Developers
Initial release March 2003; 22 years ago (2003-03)
Stable release 1.4.39 (January 2, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-01-02)) [±][1]
Preview release 1.5.0 r2698 (December 7, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-12-07)) [±]
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Web server
License 3-clause BSD
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lighttpd (pronounced "lighty")[2] is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.[citation needed] It was originally written by Jan Kneschke as a proof-of-concept of the c10k problem – how to handle 10,000 connections in parallel on one server,[3] but has gained worldwide popularity.[4]

Premise

The low memory footprint (compared to other web servers),[5] small CPU load and speed optimizations[6] 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. It runs natively on Unix-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows.[7]

Application support

lighttpd supports the FastCGI, SCGI and CGI interfaces to external programs, allowing web applications written in any programming language to be used with the server. As a particularly popular language, PHP performance has received special attention. Lighttpd's FastCGI can be configured to support PHP with opcode caches (like APC) properly and efficiently. Additionally, it has received attention from its popularity within the Python, Perl, Ruby and Lua communities. Lighttpd also supports WebDNA, the resilient in-memory database system designed to build database-driven websites. It is a popular web server for the Catalyst and Ruby on Rails web frameworks. Lighttpd does not support ISAPI.

Features

Limitations

Lighttpd (1.4.x) officially does not support sending large files from CGI, FastCGI, or proxies [12] unless X-Sendfile is used.

Usage

The LAMP software bundle (here additionally with Squid). A high performance and high-availability solution for a hostile environment

Lighttpd is used by a number of high-traffic websites, among them are Bloglines and Xkcd.[13] It was used in the past by Meebo and YouTube.[14][better source needed] Wikimedia also runs Lighttpd servers.[15][16][17][18]

See also

References

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Bibliography

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External links

WLMP

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  6. ↑ Gabriel Kerneis and Juliusz Chroboczek. Are events fast?. PPS technical report, University of Paris 7. 2009. http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/research/cpc-bench.pdf
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  9. ↑ Lighttpd - Bug #1101: SSI include virtual does not run cgi – lighty labs
  10. ↑ http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModMagnet
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