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

1.4.28

August 22nd, 2010

1.4.27 introduced some serious bugs in our fdevent system; one resulted in segfaults with FreeBSD; this should be fixed now.

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1.4.27 - P != NP for N != 1 and P != 0

August 13th, 2010

It has been a long time since the last release again, and again we have many bug fixes - and some small new features, check the following summary or the complete list below.

There have been fixes for ssl (SNI handling and the SSL_CTX_set_options fix) and mod_cgi and mod_proxy (response handling).

There is a new fdevent handler “libev”; “linux-rtsig” got removed.

And we bind now IPv6 sockets to IPv6 only in almost all cases (we disable “dual-stack”), see IPv6-Config for details.

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