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Welcome to Lighttpd

We changed from trac to redmine in the past few weeks and tho some pages still have the old reST format (search for "#!rst" and fix them :-)). We think all important pages got converted and most of the dead links are gone. Speed, usability and active development of redmine hopefully ensures a future-proof basis we will use for some time.

Please no tickets for broken or ugly pages in redmine! Just fix them or write us at #lighttpd on irc.freenode.net. :-)
For technical problems with redmine please file a bug or report to www.redmine.org if thats for all redmine installations and not just ours.

Thanks to all who hepled us and dont forget to give us some feedback at our forums!

Lighty-Team

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/

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
    16. Python::TurboGears
    17. Python::Django (Old)
    18. Perl::Catalyst
    19. Python::Quixote
    20. Python::webpy
    21. Using Pike with FastCGI
    22. Ruby::Mongrel
    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
    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. A complete Debian server tutorial, including lighttpd for web hosting with ssl and virtual hosts
    32. How to configure lighty with suPHP

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!

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