Welcome to Lighttpd

Description

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems.

For more info go to http://www.lighttpd.net/

Note to all hax0rs

Pwning this site is not 1337 at all. It is a wiki, we just revert to the last revision.

New Releases

Documentation

Tutorials

Step by Step to a working lighttpd installation:

  1. Installing Lighttpd
  2. Configuring Lighttpd
  3. Setting up Applications
    1. Setting up PHP with Lighttpd
    2. Using Rails with Lighttpd
    3. Using Perl via a FastCGI dispatcher
    4. Using W3C Markup Validator with Lighttpd
    5. Setting up Blosxom with Lighttpd
    6. Setting up Ajaxterm with Lighttpd
    7. Using Apache+Subversion with Lighttpd
    8. Setting up Nagios with Lighttpd
    9. Using Mason with Lighttpd and FastCGI
    10. Using Request Tracker with Lighttpd (via FastCGI, using Mason)
    11. Using Zope & Plone with Lighttpd
    12. Setting up Lighttpd and AWStats
    13. Python::Pylons (SCGI method)
    14. Python::TurboGears
    15. Python::Django (Old)
    16. Python::Quixote
    17. Python::webpy
    18. Using Pike with FastCGI
    19. Ruby::Mongrel
    20. Perl::Catalyst
    21. lighttpd + Nevow (Twisted) Virtual Hosts
    22. Wordpress Permalinks Howto
    23. Drupal Lighttpd with 'Clean Urls' HowTo
    24. Zen Cart and Ultimate SEO URLs on Lighttpd
    25. Using Joomla with Lighttpd (And SEF URL's)
    26. Using Lighty with ISPconfig (Web Hosting Panel) - Will be shipped with future ISPconfig-Released
    27. a fresh debian 4.0 etch and lighttpd installation with php, mysql, mod_geoip (maxmind database) and visitors webstats, monitored by runit

Or better a full-fledged book covering lighttpd and Rails:

Startup Scripts

  1. Ubuntu

Reference Documentation

Community

Developing Information

Propaganda

Must Reads

Benchmarks

Never trust us when we say that lighttpd is fast. Do your own benchmarks and feel for yourself how everything gets faster. If you just want to see some numbers, take a look at our benchmarks:

Contributing

This wiki is open for everyone to provide help, grow and improve!