lighttpd
lighttpd is 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 Web servers, and it takes care of CPU load. It has an advanced feature set that includes FastCGI (load balanced), CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, SSL, and much more.
| Tags | Internet Web HTTP Servers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Revised |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 19 Jun 2009 20:29
Changes: spawn-fcgi is now going its own way as an independent project. WSGI applications in / should work now (use the fastcgi/scgi option "fix-root-scriptname"). There are many other fixes and improvements.
- 28 Mar 2009 22:09
Changes: Some regressions from 1.4.21 got fixed, including the default vhost in mod_simple_vhost and new problems with FreeBSD sendfile. A segfault in mod_scgi was also fixed.
- 17 Feb 2009 14:15
Changes: This is a bugfix release but also contains three small new features.
- 03 Oct 2008 12:36
Changes: A possible DoS in the SSL support and memleaks that can be triggered from the outside were fixed. More than 50 more bugs were fixed.
- 11 Mar 2008 01:36
Changes: One major (core) and two minor security issues (mod_cgi, mod_userdir) were fixed along with many bugs. Compilation and the test suite now pass cleanly on Solaris. SSL support should result in fewer warnings and If-Range is now honored.
