lighttpd 1.4.16

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible Web server which has been optimized for high-performance environments.
lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other Web servers, and it takes care of CPU load. lighttpd has an advanced feature set that includes FastCGI (load balanced), CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, SSL, and much more.
Main features:
Advanced Features:
- virtual hosts
- virtual directory listings
- URL-Rewriting, HTTP-Redirects
- automatic expiration of files
- Large File Support (64bit fileoffsets)
- Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
- on-the-fly output-compression with transparent caching
- deflate, gzip, bzip2
- authentication
- basic, digest
- backends: plain files, htpasswd, htdigest, ldap
- fast and secure application controlled downloads
- Server Side Includes
- User Tracking
- FastCGI, CGI, SSI
PHP-Support:
- same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
- includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (neccesary for PHP 4.3.x)
- via FastCGI and CGI interface
- support Code Caches like Turckmm, APC or eaccelarator
- load-balanced FastCGI
- (one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
Security features:
- chroot(), set UID, set GID
- protecting docroot
- strict HTTP-header parsing
Platforms
Releases of lighttpd are built regulary for at least the following platforms
- Linux (binary packages for FC3, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, PLD-Linux, OpenWRT)
- *BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X)
- SGI IRIX
- Windows (Cygwin)
while it is known to compile cleanly on
- Solaris
- AIX
and various other POSIX compatible OSes.