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Lighttpd

Lighttpd

By : Bogus
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Lighttpd

4.3 (7)
By: Bogus
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Overview of this book

This book is for System Administrators or Web Developers seeking a lean deployment platform for web applications or who want to switch to a lighter web server than Apache.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Lighttpd
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Lighttpd
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewer
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About the Reviewer
Preface
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Preface
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Introduction to Lighttpd
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Introduction to Lighttpd
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Installing Lighttpd
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Building Lighttpd using Autotools
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Building Lighttpd using CMake
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Summary
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Configuring and Running Lighttpd
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Configuring and Running Lighttpd
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Starting Lighttpd by Hand
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Other Core Options
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Mime Types
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Selectors
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Rewriting and Redirecting Requests
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Including Variables, Files, and Shell-code
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Summary
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More Virtual Hosting and CGI
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More Virtual Hosting and CGI
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Extended Virtual Hosting
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MySQL based Virtual Hosting
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Going Dynamic
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CGI with mod_cgi
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FastCGI
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SCGI
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mod_proxy_core and backends
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Summary
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Downloads and Streams
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Downloads and Streams
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Core Settings
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Traffic Shaping
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Showing Directory Contents
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Securing Downloads
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Streaming Content
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Putting it All Together
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Summary
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Big Brother Lighttpd
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Big Brother Lighttpd
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Privacy
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O Browser, Where Art Thou?
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Access Logging
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Tracking Users
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Other Data Points
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Summary
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Encryption: SSL
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Encryption: SSL
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Self-Signed Keys
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Being our own Certificate Authority
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Obtaining a Key Pair from a Third-Party Supplier
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Configuring Lighttpd to use SSL
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Summary
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Securing Lighttpd
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Securing Lighttpd
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Barriers to Entry
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Evading Denial of Service Attacks
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Know Your Foe
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Summary
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Containing Lighttpd
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Containing Lighttpd
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Giving up Privileges
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Changing Root
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Separating the Backend
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Summary
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Optimizing Lighttpd
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Optimizing Lighttpd
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Installing http_load
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Specific Optimizations
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Profiling with gprof
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Summary
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Migration from Apache
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Migration from Apache
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Adding Lighttpd to the Mix
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Excursion: mod_proxy
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Reducing Apache Load
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mod_perl, mod_php, and mod_python
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.htaccess
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Rewriting Rules
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WebDAV
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Summary
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CGI Revisited
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CGI Revisited
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Ruby on Rails
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WordPress
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phpMyAdmin
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MediaWiki
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Trac
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AWStats
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AjaxTerm
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Summary
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Using Lua with Lighttpd
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Using Lua with Lighttpd
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Lua: A small Primer
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Useful Lua Libraries
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Lua/FastCGI
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Running mod_magnet
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Example: A Shoutbox
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Summary
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Writing Lighttpd Modules
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Writing Lighttpd Modules
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Handling Configuration
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Rewriting the Request
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Manipulating the Response
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Summary
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HTTP Status Codes
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HTTP Status Codes
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Module/Configuration Index
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Module/Configuration Index
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Internal
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mod_access
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mod_accesslog
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mod_alias
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mod_auth
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mod_cgi
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mod_cml
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mod_chunked
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mod_compress
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mod_deflate
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mod_dirlisting
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mod_evasive
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mod_evhost
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mod_expire
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mod_fastcgi
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mod_flv_streaming
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mod_indexfile
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mod_magnet
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mod_proxy
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mod_proxy_core
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mod_redirect
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mod_rewrite
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mod_rrdtool
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mod_scgi
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mod_secure_download
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mod_setenv
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mod_simple_vhost
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mod_sql_vhost_core, mod_mysql_vhost
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mod_ssi
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mod_staticfile
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mod_status
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mod_trigger_b4_dl
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mod_uploadprogress
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mod_userdir
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mod_usertrack
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mod_webdav

Specific Optimizations

Until now, our methods and tools to measure performance are quite blunt—we can see how fast our Lighttpd is with a specific optimization, but we do not know where to start. Ahmdahl's law (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law) implies that if we optimize a portion of the code that takes up a portion X of the time by the ratio Y, the resulting speedup is limited by X. The downside of this is optimizing code that never gets called which is a good way to throw away our time. The upside is that if we know which portions of the code takes up most of the time, we know where to optimize.

A crude way of finding out where Lighttpd spends its time (at least between reading and writing) is log timing. As of Lighttpd 1.5.0, there is a new configuration option: debug.log-timing. This option can be enabled to insert timing information into the log files. For each request, the start time plus three intervals will be timed. The interval between receiving and queuing the request...

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