lighttpd

fast, secure and flexible web server

lighttpd (pronounced 'lighty') : secure, fast, compliant and very flexible. Optimized for high performance. Includes: FastCGI, CGI, basic and digest HTTP authentication, output compression, URL rewriting.

To configure lighttpd and its modules see the doc-directory.

       -f  configfile configuration file 
       -m  moduledir directory that contains modules, instead of the default.  
       -p  Print the parsed configuration file in its internal form and exit.  
       -t  Test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit.  

       -D  Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemonize.  
       -v  Show version and exitA

            On raspberry pi as of 2/10/18:
                lighttpd/1.4.31 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver
            Build-Date: Aug  2 2016 22:25:17
       -V  Show compile-time features and exit.  
            Build-Date: Aug  2 2016 22:25:17

            Event Handlers: 
                + select (generic) poll (Unix) epoll (Linux 2.6)
                - rt-signals (Linux 2.4+) /dev/poll (Solaris) eventports (Solaris) kqueue (FreeBSD) libev (generic)

            Network handler: 
                + linux-sendfile  writev  write
                - mmap support  freebsd-sendfile  solaris-sendfilev

            Features: 
                + IPv6  zlib  bzip2  crypt  SSL  PCRE  mySQL  LDAP  FAM  LUA  xml  SQLite  GDBM
                - memcached 


       -h  Show a brief help message and exit.

FILES

       /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf 
server.modules = ( "mod_access", "mod_alias", "mod_compress", "mod_redirect",
#       "mod_rewrite",
)

server.document-root        = "/var/www"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80

index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )

compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype           = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )

# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"


       /var/run/lighttpd.pid      


sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd status
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd stop
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd start