lighttpd (usually pronounced "Light-TPD", abbreviated "Lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. It was originally written by the German programmer Jan Kneschke (who also works for MySQL) as a proof-of-concept of the c10k problem (how to handle 10000 connections in parallel on one server), but now has substantial worldwide popularity.
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lighttpd (usually pronounced "Light-TPD", abbreviated "Lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. It was originally written by the German programmer Jan Kneschke (who also works for MySQL) as a proof-of-concept of the c10k problem (how to handle 10000 connections in parallel on one server), but now has substantial worldwide popularity.
Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. lighttpd is free software/open source, and is distributed under the BSD license. lighttpd runs on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows (under Cygwin). On Windows it can be controlled with the program Lighty Tray which integrates into the system tray.
lighttpd supports the FastCGI, SCGI and CGI interfaces to...
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