Lighttpd

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Lighttpd

By : Andre Bogus

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Lighttpd

By: Andre Bogus

Overview of this book

Lighttpd

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewer

About the Reviewer

Preface

Free Chapter

Introduction to Lighttpd

Introduction to Lighttpd

Installing Lighttpd

Building Lighttpd using Autotools

Building Lighttpd using CMake

Configuring and Running Lighttpd

Configuring and Running Lighttpd

Starting Lighttpd by Hand

Other Core Options

Rewriting and Redirecting Requests

Including Variables, Files, and Shell-code

More Virtual Hosting and CGI

More Virtual Hosting and CGI

Extended Virtual Hosting

MySQL based Virtual Hosting

CGI with mod_cgi

mod_proxy_core and backends

Downloads and Streams

Downloads and Streams

Traffic Shaping

Showing Directory Contents

Securing Downloads

Streaming Content

Putting it All Together

Big Brother Lighttpd

Big Brother Lighttpd

O Browser, Where Art Thou?

Other Data Points

Encryption: SSL

Encryption: SSL

Self-Signed Keys

Being our own Certificate Authority

Obtaining a Key Pair from a Third-Party Supplier

Configuring Lighttpd to use SSL

Securing Lighttpd

Securing Lighttpd

Barriers to Entry

Evading Denial of Service Attacks

Containing Lighttpd

Containing Lighttpd

Giving up Privileges

Separating the Backend

Optimizing Lighttpd

Optimizing Lighttpd

Installing http_load

Specific Optimizations

Profiling with gprof

Migration from Apache

Migration from Apache

Adding Lighttpd to the Mix

Excursion: mod_proxy

Reducing Apache Load

mod_perl, mod_php, and mod_python

Rewriting Rules

CGI Revisited

Using Lua with Lighttpd

Using Lua with Lighttpd

Lua: A small Primer

Useful Lua Libraries

Running mod_magnet

Example: A Shoutbox

Writing Lighttpd Modules

Writing Lighttpd Modules

Handling Configuration

Rewriting the Request

Manipulating the Response

HTTP Status Codes

HTTP Status Codes

Module/Configuration Index

Module/Configuration Index

mod_flv_streaming

mod_secure_download

mod_simple_vhost

mod_sql_vhost_core, mod_mysql_vhost

mod_trigger_b4_dl

mod_uploadprogress

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mod_staticfile

Name	Type	Description
static-file.exclude-extensions	(...)	List of file extensions for which to forbid static access (for example, ("php") to secure against serving source code)