lighttpd - a fast, secure and flexible web server
lighttpd [-ptDvVh] -f configfile [-m moduledir]
LIGHTTPD(8) LIGHTTPD(8) NAME lighttpd - a fast, secure and flexible web server SYNOPSIS lighttpd [-ptDvVh] -f configfile [-m moduledir] DESCRIPTION lighttpd (pronounced 'lighty') is an advanced HTTP daemon that aims to be secure, fast, compliant and very flexible. It has been optimized for high performance. Its feature set includes, but is not limited to, FastCGI, CGI, basic and digest HTTP authentication, output compression, URL rewriting. This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details on how to configure lighttpd and its modules see the files in the doc- directory. OPTIONS The following options are supported: -f configfile Load configuration file configfile. -m moduledir Use moduledir as the directory that contains modules, instead of the default. -p Print the parsed configuration file in its internal form and exit. -t Test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit. -tt Test the configuration file for syntax errors, load and ini- tialize modules, and exit. -D Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemo- nize. -i secs Trigger daemon graceful shutdown after secs of inactivity. -1 Process single (one) request on stdin socket, then exit. -v Show version and exit. -V Show compile-time features and exit. -h Show a brief help message and exit. FILES /etc/lighttpd/1.4/lighttpd.conf The standard location for the configuration file. /var/lighttpd/1.4/logs/run.pid The standard location for the PID of the running lighttpd process. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------------+ |Availability | web/server/lighttpd-14 | +---------------+------------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+------------------------+ SEE ALSO Online Documentation: https://red- mine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/ 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. AUTHOR Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de> NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://www.lighttpd.net/down- load/lighttpd-1.4.63.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.lighttpd.net/. 2009-03-07 LIGHTTPD(8)