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                      2: ========
                      3: lighttpd
                      4: ========
                      5: 
                      6: -------------
                      7: a light httpd
                      8: -------------
                      9: 
                     10: :author: Jan Kneschke
                     11: :Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $
                     12: :Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
                     13: 
                     14: :abstract:
                     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.
                     21: 
                     22: :documentation:
                     23:   http://wiki.lighttpd.net/
                     24: 
                     25: the naming
                     26: ----------
                     27: 
                     28: lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is
                     29: 
                     30: - fast as __light__ning and
                     31: - __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements
                     32: 
                     33: Features
                     34: --------
                     35: 
                     36: Network
                     37: ```````
                     38: 
                     39: - IPv4, IPv6
                     40: 
                     41: Protocols
                     42: `````````
                     43: 
                     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)
                     49: 
                     50: Advanced Features
                     51: `````````````````
                     52: 
                     53: - load-balanced FastCGI
                     54:   (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
                     55: - custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599)
                     56: - virtual hosts
                     57: - directory listings
                     58: - streaming CGI and FastCGI
                     59: - URL-Rewriting
                     60: - HTTP-Redirection
                     61: - output-compression with transparent caching
                     62: 
                     63: FastCGI-Support
                     64: ```````````````
                     65: 
                     66: - parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly
                     67: - Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header
                     68: 
                     69: PHP-Support
                     70: ```````````
                     71: 
                     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)
                     75: 
                     76: Security features
                     77: `````````````````
                     78: 
                     79: - chroot(), set UID, set GID
                     80: - protecting docroot
                     81: 
                     82: HTTP/1.1 features
                     83: `````````````````
                     84: 
                     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
                     91: - sends Content-Type
                     92: - on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip)
                     93: - authentication: basic and digest
                     94:   (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)
                     95: 
                     96: HTTP/1.1 compliance
                     97: ```````````````````
                     98: 
                     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
                    108: 
                    109: Intended Audience
                    110: -----------------
                    111: 
                    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)
                    116: 
                    117: Works with
                    118: ----------
                    119: 
                    120: It has been tested to work with
                    121: 
                    122: - IE 6.0
                    123: - Mozilla 1.x
                    124: - Konqueror 3.1
                    125:   (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)
                    126: - wget
                    127:   (for Resuming)
                    128: - acrobat plugin
                    129:   (for multiple ranges)
                    130: 
                    131: 
                    132: Works on
                    133: --------
                    134: 
                    135: lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on
                    136: 
                    137: - Linux
                    138: - FreeBSD
                    139: - NetBSD
                    140: - Solaris 8 + 9
                    141: - SGI IRIX 6.5
                    142: 
                    143: missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance
                    144: -------------------------------
                    145: - parsing chunked POST request
                    146: 
                    147: -----------------
                    148: Starting lighttpd
                    149: -----------------
                    150: 
                    151: As daemon in the background: ::
                    152: 
                    153:   $ lighttpd -f <configfile>
                    154: 
                    155: or without detaching from the console: ::
                    156: 
                    157:   $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile>
                    158: 
                    159: