Lighttpd

Lighttpd (mostly spoken as Lighty ) is a standard developed by Jan Kneschke free web server. It implements all important functions of a web server and can, like Apache, be extended by modules.

Operation

The server relies on asynchronous communication and handles multiple requests in a single operating system process. This is the web server is able to handle multiple parallel queries more efficient and less CPU and memory burden as a multi- process design about the Apache web server. This is particularly worthwhile when concurrent access to large files from many users.

PHP is connected using FastCGI. Perl, Python or Ruby can also be addressed via the SCGI interface. Pages on the CML module (originally: Cache Meta Language ) are generated automatically in Lua, also Server Side Includes are supported by a module.

Dissemination

Lighttpd is spreading rapidly, according to Netcraft, and managed in the "Web Server Survey " of March 2007, approximately 1.4 million domains the leap to 4th in the rankings. In this summary, however, go some a " parked " domain which often thousands on a server, whereby the exchange of large domain trader can have a significant impact on the numbers. In August 2010, the spread was 1.8 million domains.

According to a generated by Alexa top 200 list of websites put a few large and well-known web suppliers Lighttpd, such as YouTube (requires a modified version of a ) or SourceForge.

Features

  • Extensibility through modules
  • Server load balancing possible
  • Supports FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP proxy
  • Integrates into a chroot environment running
  • The server based on the select () -/poll () -/epoll () system calls,
  • Conditional rewrites (see mod_rewrite in Apache )
  • HTTPS: SSL and TLS are offered with OpenSSL
  • Authentication via LDAP server
  • RRDtool Statistics
  • Supports Server Side Includes
  • Virtual hosting
  • Minimum WebDAV support
  • Java Servlet support, Apache JServ Protocol is also implemented
  • HTTP compression using mod_compress and mod_deflate
  • PHP5 CGI via FastCGI ( mod_fastcgi )
BSD licenses Modular programming Asynchronous I/O Computer memory Simple Common Gateway Interface LAMP (software bundle) Transport Layer Security
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