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    1: 
    2: ========
    3: lighttpd
    4: ========
    5: 
    6: -------------
    7: a light httpd
    8: -------------
    9: 
   10: :author: Jan Kneschke
   11: :Date: $Date: 2013/10/14 10:32:47 $
   12: :Revision: $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
   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: