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@@ -1,156 +1,9 @@ +The stable series lives in the branch lighttpd-1.4.x, check it out: -======== -lighttpd -======== + svn checkout svn://svn.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/branches/lighttpd-1.4.x -------------- -a light httpd -------------- - -:author: Jan Kneschke -:Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $ -:Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $ - -:abstract: - lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server - which 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 is suffering load problems. - -the naming ----------- - -lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is - -- fast as __light__ning and -- __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements - -Features --------- - -Network -``````` - -- IPv4, IPv6 - -Protocols -````````` - -- HTTP/1.0 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt) -- HTTP/1.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt) -- HTTPS (provided by openssl) -- CGI/1.1 (http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/) -- FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html) - -Advanced Features -````````````````` - -- load-balanced FastCGI - (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI) -- custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599) -- virtual hosts -- directory listings -- streaming CGI and FastCGI -- URL-Rewriting -- HTTP-Redirection -- output-compression with transparent caching - -FastCGI-Support -``````````````` - -- parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly -- Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header - -PHP-Support -``````````` - -- same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4 -- handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI -- includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x) - -Security features -````````````````` - -- chroot(), set UID, set GID -- protecting docroot - -HTTP/1.1 features -````````````````` - -- Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges) -- HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections -- methods: GET, HEAD, POST -- Last-Modified + If-Modified handling -- sends Content-Length if possible -- sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible -- sends Content-Type -- on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip) -- authentication: basic and digest - (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt) - -HTTP/1.1 compliance -``````````````````` - -- Sends 206 for Range Requests -- Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests -- Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests -- Sends 400 for broken Request-Line -- Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests -- Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header -- Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD) -- Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 -- Sends Date: on every requests - -Intended Audience ------------------ - -- Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder") - - delivering small files rapidly -- php-servers under high load - (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers) - -Works with ----------- - -It has been tested to work with - -- IE 6.0 -- Mozilla 1.x -- Konqueror 3.1 - (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip) -- wget - (for Resuming) -- acrobat plugin - (for multiple ranges) - - -Works on --------- - -lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on - -- Linux -- FreeBSD -- NetBSD -- Solaris 8 + 9 -- SGI IRIX 6.5 - -missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance -------------------------------- -- parsing chunked POST request - ------------------ -Starting lighttpd ------------------ - -As daemon in the background: :: - - $ lighttpd -f <configfile> - -or without detaching from the console: :: - - $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile> +The current development version is lighttpd2 at http://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2.git, clone it: + git clone git://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd2.git +The previous trunk (aka "1.5") has been dead for some time, and is archived as svn://svn.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/branches/lighttpd-1.5-dead |