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lighttpd 1.4.41

    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
   36: \fB\-tt\fP
   37: Test the configuration file for syntax errors, load and initialize modules, and exit.
   38: .TP 8
   39: \fB\-D\fP
   40: Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemonize.
   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.
   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>