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. Setup SEO in Joomla
    10. Using Mason with Lighttpd and FastCGI
    11. Using Request Tracker with Lighttpd (via FastCGI, using Mason)
    12. Using Zope & Plone with Lighttpd
    13. Pastebin with Lighttpd (via FastCGI)
    14. Setting up Lighttpd and AWStats
    15. Python::Pylons (SCGI method)
    16. Python::TurboGears
    17. Python::Django (Old)
    18. Python::Quixote
    19. Python::webpy
    20. Using Pike with FastCGI
    21. Ruby::Mongrel
    22. Perl::Catalyst
    23. lighttpd + Nevow (Twisted) Virtual Hosts
    24. Wordpress Permalinks Howto
    25. Wordpress Clean URLs (Permalinks) using mod_rewrite
    26. Drupal Lighttpd with 'Clean Urls' HowTo
    27. Zen Cart and Ultimate SEO URLs on Lighttpd
    28. Using Joomla with Lighttpd (And SEF URL's)
    29. Using Lighty with ISPconfig (Web Hosting Panel) - Will be shipped with future ISPconfig-Released
    30. a fresh debian 4.0 etch and lighttpd installation with php, mysql, mod_geoip (maxmind database) and visitors webstats, monitored by runit
    31. Using lighttpd and Amazon S3 for static file serving
    32. A complete Debian server tutorial, including lighttpd for web hosting with ssl and virtual hosts

Or better two full-fledged books covering lighttpd and Rails:

Administration

  1. Simple maintenance mode scripts
  2. 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!