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1.1       misho       1: .TH LIGHTTPD "8" "2009-03-07" "" ""
                      2: .
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: lighttpd \- a fast, secure and flexible web server
                      5: .
                      6: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      7: \fBlighttpd\fP [\fB\-ptDvVh\fP] \fB\-f\fP \fIconfigfile\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fImoduledir\fP]
                      8: .
                      9: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     10: \fBlighttpd\fP (pronounced 'lighty') is an advanced HTTP daemon that aims
                     11: to be secure, fast, compliant and very flexible.  It has been optimized for
                     12: high performance.  Its feature set includes, but is not limited to, FastCGI,
                     13: CGI, basic and digest HTTP authentication, output compression, URL rewriting.
                     14: .PP
                     15: This manual page only lists the command line arguments.  For details
                     16: on how to configure \fBlighttpd\fP and its modules see the files in the
                     17: doc-directory.
                     18: .
                     19: .SH OPTIONS
                     20: The following options are supported:
                     21: .TP 8
                     22: \fB\-f\ \fP \fIconfigfile\fP
                     23: Load configuration file \fIconfigfile\fP.
                     24: .TP 8
                     25: \fB\-m\ \fP \fImoduledir\fP
                     26: Use
                     27: \fImoduledir\fP
                     28: as the directory that contains modules, instead of the default.
                     29: .TP 8
                     30: \fB\-p\fP
                     31: Print the parsed configuration file in its internal form and exit.
                     32: .TP 8
                     33: \fB\-t\fP
                     34: Test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit.
                     35: .TP 8
1.1.1.2 ! misho      36: \fB\-tt\fP
        !            37: Test the configuration file for syntax errors, load and initialize modules, and exit.
        !            38: .TP 8
1.1       misho      39: \fB\-D\fP
                     40: Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemonize.
1.1.1.2 ! misho      41: .TP 8
        !            42: \fB\-i\ \fP \fIsecs\fP
        !            43: Trigger daemon graceful shutdown after \fIsecs\fP of inactivity.
        !            44: .TP 8
        !            45: \fB\-1\fP
        !            46: Process single (one) request on stdin socket, then exit.
1.1       misho      47: .TP 8
                     48: \fB\-v\fP
                     49: Show version and exit.
                     50: .TP 8
                     51: \fB\-V\fP
                     52: Show compile-time features and exit.
                     53: .TP 8
                     54: \fB\-h\fP
                     55: Show a brief help message and exit.
                     56: .
                     57: .SH FILES
                     58: .TP 8
                     59: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
                     60: The standard location for the configuration file.
                     61: .TP 8
                     62: /var/run/lighttpd.pid
                     63: The standard location for the PID of the running \fBlighttpd\fP process.
                     64: .
                     65: .SH SEE ALSO
                     66: Online Documentation: http://wiki.lighttpd.net/
                     67: .PP
                     68: spawn-fcgi(1)
                     69: .PP
                     70: \fIHypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1\fP, RFC 2616.
                     71: .PP
                     72: \fIHTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication\fP, RFC 2617.
                     73: .PP
                     74: \fIThe Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1\fP, RFC 3875.
                     75: .PP
                     76: \fIThe FastCGI specification\fP.
                     77: .
                     78: .SH AUTHOR
                     79: Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de>