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README

      1 
      2 ========
      3 lighttpd
      4 ========
      5 
      6 -------------
      7 a light httpd
      8 -------------
      9 
     10 :author: Jan Kneschke
     11 :Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $
     12 :Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
     13 
     14 :abstract:
     15   lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server
     16   which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very
     17   low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load.
     18   Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,
     19   URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software
     20   for every server that is suffering load problems.
     21 
     22 the naming
     23 ----------
     24 
     25 lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is
     26 
     27 - fast as __light__ning and
     28 - __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements
     29 
     30 Features
     31 --------
     32 
     33 Network
     34 ```````
     35 
     36 - IPv4, IPv6
     37 
     38 Protocols
     39 `````````
     40 
     41 - HTTP/1.0 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt)
     42 - HTTP/1.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)
     43 - HTTPS (provided by openssl)
     44 - CGI/1.1 (http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/)
     45 - FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html)
     46 
     47 Advanced Features
     48 `````````````````
     49 
     50 - load-balanced FastCGI
     51   (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
     52 - custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599)
     53 - virtual hosts
     54 - directory listings
     55 - streaming CGI and FastCGI
     56 - URL-Rewriting
     57 - HTTP-Redirection
     58 - output-compression with transparent caching
     59 
     60 FastCGI-Support
     61 ```````````````
     62 
     63 - parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly
     64 - Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header
     65 
     66 PHP-Support
     67 ```````````
     68 
     69 - same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
     70 - handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI
     71 - includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x)
     72 
     73 Security features
     74 `````````````````
     75 
     76 - chroot(), set UID, set GID
     77 - protecting docroot
     78 
     79 HTTP/1.1 features
     80 `````````````````
     81 
     82 - Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
     83 - HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections
     84 - methods: GET, HEAD, POST
     85 - Last-Modified + If-Modified handling
     86 - sends Content-Length if possible
     87 - sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible
     88 - sends Content-Type
     89 - on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip)
     90 - authentication: basic and digest
     91   (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)
     92 
     93 HTTP/1.1 compliance
     94 ```````````````````
     95 
     96 - Sends 206 for Range Requests
     97 - Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests
     98 - Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests
     99 - Sends 400 for broken Request-Line
    100 - Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests
    101 - Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header
    102 - Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD)
    103 - Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1
    104 - Sends Date: on every requests
    105 
    106 Intended Audience
    107 -----------------
    108 
    109 - Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder")
    110   - delivering small files rapidly
    111 - php-servers under high load
    112   (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers)
    113 
    114 Works with
    115 ----------
    116 
    117 It has been tested to work with
    118 
    119 - IE 6.0
    120 - Mozilla 1.x
    121 - Konqueror 3.1
    122   (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)
    123 - wget
    124   (for Resuming)
    125 - acrobat plugin
    126   (for multiple ranges)
    127 
    128 
    129 Works on
    130 --------
    131 
    132 lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on
    133 
    134 - Linux
    135 - FreeBSD
    136 - NetBSD
    137 - Solaris 8 + 9
    138 - SGI IRIX 6.5
    139 
    140 missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance
    141 -------------------------------
    142 - parsing chunked POST request
    143 
    144 -----------------
    145 Starting lighttpd
    146 -----------------
    147 
    148 As daemon in the background: ::
    149 
    150   $ lighttpd -f <configfile>
    151 
    152 or without detaching from the console: ::
    153 
    154   $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile>
    155 
    156 
    157