lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible Web server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other Web servers, and it takes care of CPU load. It has an advanced feature set that includes FastCGI (load balanced), CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, SSL, and much more.
| Tags | Internet Web HTTP Servers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Revised |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes a DoS bug (CVE-2012-5533) and contains other small fixes.


Release Notes: Many important changes. This release fixes a segfault (a crash on the first HTTPS request), disables mmap due to a possible crash if the file is truncated while reading, and more.


Release Notes: This version fixes a signedness error in http_auth (CVE-2011-4362), disables client initiated renegotiations, supports mitigating BEAST attacks (both SSL), and fixes connection stalls.


Release Notes: This release fixes a name conflict with OpenSSL, some cgi* bugs, should improve SSL support, and adds the "solaris-eventports" fdevent handler.


Release Notes: 1.4.27 introduced some serious bugs in the fdevent system; one resulted in segfaults with FreeBSD. This should be fixed now.