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lighttpd

lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast... Created by Jan Kneschke

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lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments.
lighttpd supports load-balancing FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP proxy, SSL and TLS support via OpenSSL, authentication against an LDAP server, flexible virtual hosting, HTTP compression und much more.
It is designed very light-weight (less than 1 MB).

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lighttpd was added by void in Jun 2009 and the latest update was made in May 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2019. It's possible to update the information on lighttpd or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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