LIGHTTPD(8)

💖 LIGHTTPD — the lighttpd(8) manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you opened the manual for lighttpd, section 8 (that's the sysadmin section, iykyk). it's pronounced 'lighty', which is adorable, and it's literally one of the girlies. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lighttpd — a fast, secure and flexible web server 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lighttpd [-ptDvVh] -f configfile [-m moduledir]

that's the whole vibe. short, iconic, does exactly what it says on the tin 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so lighttpd — pronounced 'lighty', say it with me — is an advanced HTTP daemon. and like, its whole personality? it aims to be secure, fast, compliant and very flexible. it has been optimized for high performance. main character energy, no cap. 🔥

its feature set includes, but is not limited to:

• FastCGI
• CGI
• basic and digest HTTP authentication
• output compression
• URL rewriting

heads up bestie: this manual page only lists the command line arguments. if you wanna know how to actually configure lighttpd and all its modules, go read the files in the doc-directory. that's where the real lore lives 📖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

the following options are supported:

• -f configfile — load configuration file configfile. optionally, use -f - to read config from stdin. and listen — -f - is incompatible with -1. they do not get along, do not try to make them ✋
• -m moduledir — use moduledir as the directory that contains modules, instead of the default.
• -p — print the parsed configuration file in its internal form, then exit. it's giving "show me your true self" 🪞
• -t — test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit.
• -tt — test the configuration file for syntax errors, load and initialize modules, and exit. the double-t is the overachiever sister, she does the full dress rehearsal 💅
• -D — do not daemonize (do not go into the background). the default is to daemonize.
• -i secs — trigger daemon graceful shutdown after secs of inactivity. she simply leaves when the party's dead 😌
• -1 — process single (one) request on stdin socket, then exit.
• -v — show version and exit.
• -V — show compile-time features and exit. (capital V, different vibe, do not confuse them 🫶)
• -h — show a brief help message and exit.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf — the standard location for the configuration file. this is home 🏠
• /run/lighttpd.pid — the standard location for the PID of the running lighttpd process. that's how you find her when she's running around 🐾

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Online Documentation: https://wiki.lighttpd.net/
• spawn-fcgi(1)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, RFC 2616.
• HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, RFC 2617.
• The Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1, RFC 3875.
• The FastCGI specification.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de>

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💖

this version of the lighttpd(8) manual is dated 2009-03-07 and comes from the LIGHTTPD source. mwah, go run a web server, you got this 🧚⭐