lighttpd
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lighttpd (prescribed pronunciation: "lighty") is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments. It was originally written by Jan Kneschke as a proof-of-concept of the c10k problem – how to handle 10,000 connections in parallel on one server, but has gained worldwide popularity. Its name is a portmanteau of "light" and "httpd".
Key facts
- Software.name
- lighttpd
- Software.title
- lighttpd
- Software.logo
- Lighttpd logo.svg
- Software.author
- Jan Kneschke
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- Web server
- Software.license
- BSD-3-Clause
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.lighttpd.net
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- title
- lighttpd
- software version identifier
- 1.4.82
- source code repository URL
- github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd2
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/lighttpd
- inception
- 2003-03-00
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8 sectionsContents
- Premise
- Application support
- Features
- Limitations
- Usage
- References
- Further reading
- External links
lighttpd (prescribed pronunciation: "lighty") is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments. It was originally written by Jan Kneschke as a proof-of-concept of the c10k problem – how to handle 10,000 connections in parallel on one server, but has gained worldwide popularity. Its name is a portmanteau of "light" and "httpd".
==Premise== The low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), small CPU load and speed optimizations make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. lighttpd is free and open-source software and is distributed under the BSD license. It runs natively on Unix-like operating systems, with experimental support for Microsoft Windows.