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Lighttpd ("lighty") is a fast open source web server, optimised for speed critical environments

Lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is an open source web server optimised for speed critical environments, which is standards compliant. It attempts to be lower memory footprint, and more CPU efficient than other web servers, and is often simpler to configure. Initially it was targetted at static content, but now it is widely used for both static content and hosting CGI, PHP, Ruby, Python etc code.

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Running Drupal on lighttpd

If I run Drupal on lighttpd webserver, I still have all features or I'm going into some limitations ? For examples, what could be the major issues or any drawback to use it together with Drupal ? thanks
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Lighttpd Virtual Hosts on Windows Server 2008

I've been running Windows Server 2008 very happily on my server for two months now, but only for one domain. Now that I have two sites to host I would like to set up virtual hosts. I've remove the hash before "mod_simple_vhost" and this is what…
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Lighttpd: requesting local URLs via PHP

I have a webserver which serves content for a site, let's call it "domain.com". On that site, I have several PHP scripts that serve content. When someone browses to that site, everything works. If I request, from within PHP (with Curl/Fopen), a URL…
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Setting up simple vhost on lighttpd

I've recently installed Lighttpd on Ubuntu 10.04. I used the standard concfig file without modification and placed my content in /var/www. I opened a browser typed in the URL www.myexample.co.uk and the content was delivered. Brilliant! I need to…
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High performance web server with no database interactivity

I'm getting ready to setup a server that will be responsible for tracking statistical data from a high volume traffic source. It will be handling requests at about 6-7mil/hour on average, all of which are small GETs. All I need is a simple server…
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Ubuntu + LigHTTPd: Server requests taking ages

I've had an issue since upgrading my distro a couple of weeks ago from hardy; receiving data after making a request has increasing intervals of nothing, as you can see from the picture below. http://i49.tinypic.com/2w5lvr9.png I have since…
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centos server - basic troubleshooting steps

I have a VPS server running CentOS - it's been great for about a year but has just got a little flaky, going down every couple of days and requiring a reboot. I was hoping you could offer me any basic troubleshooting steps that I might otherwise…
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sub domain in lighttpd

i need to update an subdomain in my dns and lighhtpd conf i tried the dns as example.test.org IN A (my ip address) in my dns and my lighttpd conf goes here $HTTP["host"] == "example.test.org"{ server.document-root = "/var/www/example" …
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Lightttpd Rewrite

How can I rewrite www.domain.de/news/news_944836.html to www.domain.de/news_944836.html in Lighttpd? All my Trys didn´t work :(
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Lighttpd Virtual Host Error

gah, I just noticed, the lighttpd config is somehow corrupted. It was literally working fine 3 hours ago. Starting lighttpd: Undefined config variable: var.home_dir 2010-08-29 17:29:31: (configfile.c.912) source: find /etc/lighttpd/conf.d -maxdepth…
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lighttpd virtual host config

Trying to get these two vhosts set up correctly. I have two sites on this domain that i'm hosting: www.example.com/example.com and test.example.com. How do I get both of these to work in my vhost definitions? I have: $HTTP["host"] ==…
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Recommended setup to serve both HTTPS & HTTP connections to a pylons web-application

I'm looking for a simple way to serve my pylons application in both HTTP & HTTPS (for the administration section). I had come across some tutorials on serving pylons applications through an Apache web-server but I don't need that kind of overhead…
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How can I recreate a directory in /tmp on reboot?

I'm running lighttpd on a Debian Lenny host. My lighttpd version has a bug where it doesn't recreate its compress.cache-dir on startup (I have it set to use /tmp/lighttpdcompress/). As a result, on reboot, lighttpd fails to start. What can I do to…
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Ubuntu 10.04 + Lighttpd. can't bind to port: :: 80 Address already in use

I've had a machine running Ubuntu 9.10, with lighttpd and PHP. After the OS update to Ubuntu 10.04, it installed apache2 automatically for some reason (I believe it is due to some dependencies php -> apache). Anyway I removed apache2 permanently,…
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Monitorix Graphs Show Boxes Where Text Should Be

I have just installed Monitorix on ArchLinux using the tutorial here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Monitorix I am using the Lighttpd web server. It is working fine and the graphs are being generated, but instead of text on the graphs its replaced by…
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