lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility -- all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

Web 2.0

lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative web-servers.

This fast web server and its development team create a web-server with the needs of the future web in mind:

Its event-driven architecture is optimized for a large number of parallel connections (keep-alive) which is important for high performance AJAX applications.


News

1.4.30 - Faster than santa, your first present this year!

December 18th, 2011

And lighttpd 1.4 is still alive :)

Especially for ssl users this release should be important: by setting 
ssl.cipher-list = "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:RC4-SHA:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM"
you can mitigate BEAST attacks.
Also check your site with Qualys SSL Labs Server Test

Important changes

  • [mod_auth] Fix signedness error in http_auth (CVE-2011-4362)
  • ssl: disable client initiated renegotiations
  • ssl: support mitigating BEAST attack
  • fix connection stalls

Downloads

In the comments for 1.4.29 we were asked for a launchpad repository for ubuntu. This is not going to happen (launchpad sucks), but we have repositories for some dists on build.opensuse.org. Checkout GetLighttpd, or server:http/lighttpd or home:stbuehler/lighttpd on build.opensuse.org.

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