Introduction

Lighttpd Overview

Lighttpd is open-source web server software optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible. Lighttpd features low memory footprint, small CPU load, speed optimizations, and abundant modules.

As one of the best open-source lightweight web server software, Lighttpd supports important functions such as FastCGI, CGI, Auth, output compress, URL rewriting, and alias. Apache is popular because it provides various functions. Many functions of Apache are supported by Lighttpd. This is very important for Apache users because many functions must be available after migration to Lighttpd.

Programming language: C

Brief description: web server

Recommended Version

Lighttpd 1.4.53