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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Soren Hansen
  • Date: 2006-12-08 14:40:42 UTC
  • mto: (6.1.1 lenny)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 14.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20061208144042-ehr7h8c6xmijqipw
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:Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
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:abstract:
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  lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server 
 
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  lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server
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  which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very
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  low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load.
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  Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,
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the naming
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lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is 
 
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lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is
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- fast as __light__ning and
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- __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements
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- load-balanced FastCGI
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  (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
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- custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599)
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- virtual hosts 
 
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- virtual hosts
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- directory listings
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- streaming CGI and FastCGI
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- URL-Rewriting
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- includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x)
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Security features
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- chroot(), set UID, set GID
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- protecting docroot
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HTTP/1.1 features
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- Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
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- HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections
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- methods: GET, HEAD, POST
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- Last-Modified + If-Modified handling 
 
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- Last-Modified + If-Modified handling
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- sends Content-Length if possible
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- sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible
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- sends Content-Type
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  (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)
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HTTP/1.1 compliance
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- Sends 206 for Range Requests
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- Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests
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- Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header
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- Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD)
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- Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1
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- Sends Date: on every requests 
 
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- Sends Date: on every requests
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Intended Audience
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- IE 6.0
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  (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)
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- wget 
 
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- wget
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- acrobat plugin
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Works on
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