lighttpd

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lighttpd
Original author(s)Jan Kneschke
Initial releaseMarch 2003; 21 years ago (2003-03)
Stable release
1.4.76[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 12 April 2024; 5 months ago (12 April 2024)
Preview release1.4.76 (April 12, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-04-12)) [±]
Repository
Written inC
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb server
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Websitewww.lighttpd.net Edit this on Wikidata

lighttpd (prescribed pronunciation: "lighty")

proof-of-concept of the c10k problem – how to handle 10,000 connections in parallel on one server,[3]
but has gained worldwide popularity.
portmanteau of "light" and "httpd
".

Premise

The low memory footprint (compared to other web servers),

BSD license. It runs natively on Unix-like operating systems, with experimental support for Microsoft Windows.[7]

Application support

lighttpd supports the

APC) properly and efficiently. Additionally, it has received attention from its popularity within the Python, Perl, Ruby and Lua communities. Lighttpd also supports WebDNA, the resilient in-memory database system designed to build database-driven websites. It is a popular web server for the Catalyst and Ruby on Rails web frameworks. Lighttpd does not support ISAPI
.

Features

Limitations

  • Versions below 1.4.40 do not officially support sending large files from CGI, FastCGI, or proxies[13] unless X-Sendfile is used. This limitation has been removed in lighttpd 1.4.40.[14]
  • No HTTP/3 support

Usage

Lighttpd was used in the past by several high-traffic websites, including

better source needed] The Wikimedia Foundation also once ran Lighttpd servers.[16]
Due to relatively small size it's often used in embedded devices like GL.iNet and Turris Omnia.

It's also used by git as a HTTP server daemon.

See also

References

  1. ^ "1.4.76". 12 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  2. ^ "lighttpd fly light". Retrieved 2010-06-13. all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty).
  3. ^ "lighttpd: Story". lighttpd.net. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  4. ^ "Powered By lighttpd". Lighttpd wiki. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  5. ^ "Web Server Performance Comparison". Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2012..
  6. ^ Gabriel Kerneis and Juliusz Chroboczek. Are events fast?. PPS technical report, University of Paris 7. 2009.
  7. ^ "lighttpd release 1.4.70". Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  8. ^ Gammo, Louay; Brecht, Tim; Shukla, Amol; Pariag, David (2004). "Comparing and Evaluating epoll, select, and poll Event Mechanisms" (PDF). Linux Symposium. University of Waterloo. p. 215.
  9. ^ gstrauss (2020-11-29). "1.4.56 - Lighttpd - fly light". Lighttpd. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  10. ^ Lighttpd - Bug #1101: SSI include virtual does not run cgi – lighty labs
  11. ^ "Docs ModMagnet - Lighttpd - lighty labs".
  12. ^ "lighttpd releases". lighttpd.net. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  13. ^ "Memory usage increases when proxy+ssl+large file". lighttpd bug tracker. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
  14. ^ "lighty should buffer responses (after it grows above certain size) on disk". lighttpd bug tracker. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  15. ^ "Fly Light With Lighttpd Web Server". ServerWatch. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
  16. ^ "Powered by Lighttpd". The official site. 2007-04-04. Retrieved 2008-12-22. lighttpd is used by many well-known sites. The typical scenario is using lighttpd as off-load server to push out static content and leave the complex work to another server.

Further reading