Lighttpd Or Apache

Aug 6, 2007

For a year now I've been running my server with Lighttpd. It's worked out well so far, but now that I have a new box I'm reconsidering.

Lighttpd does not support .htaccess files which is a bit of a pain, and doesn't have the same support by apps like Apache does. Given that I get very little traffic to my box (it sits idle most of the time) I am considering Apache.

How is security between Apache and Lighttpd? I know Apache has things like mod_security and mod_evasive, but I've never really checked how Lighttpd compared.

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Apache And Lighttpd, Both Use Same Php.ini

Jun 3, 2009

my php.ini had some changes (/etc/php.ini). Today i have switch from apache to lighttpd, do i need to edit another php.ini file ? Apache and lighttpd use the same php.ini ( /etc/php.ini)?

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Aug 9, 2009

Until recently, it seemed like everything I read about a server indicated that Apache was king. I have never read anything that has given me any reason not to use Apache.

However, about a year ago when I discovered Django, I discovered Lighttpd. From everything I've been able to read, Lighttpd seems to be a better web server, but still don't know very much at all about Lighttpd.

I'm fairly comfortable with Apache, although I've never cared much for it. I have a feeling that I'll like Lighttpd quite a bit more from the very little that I do know about it. I'm wondering if I should even consider switching.

For one, it seems that everyone knows how to work with Apache and Lighttpd seems to be far less common. Apache also seems to be much more established which leads me to believe that it's a safer choice. Nonetheless, I still really want to give Lighttpd a shot. And, judging from what I've seen about Django and Lighttpd, Lighttpd seems to be a better choice when working with Django.

What do you think? Should I stick with Apache since I already know how to use it? Is Lighttpd worth the time to learn or is Apache just too good?

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Jun 5, 2009

I wanted to know what do you prefer as server apache or lighttpd , though I am running lighttpd and have no issue except that there is too much work for mod rewrite and it effects search engine, so I was thinking to use apache instaed of it will it be possible to install apache over lighttpd or will I have to go for fresh install.

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Dec 23, 2007

Is it possible to do this scenario:

[url]

[url]

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Jan 7, 2007

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May 14, 2009

i want to Migrate from apache to lighttpd and i found out hypervm can do it, just click Update. But i'm noob here and i need help.

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- Can i switch back later ( withou problem )?

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May 30, 2009

We've been thinking about writing our own hosting control panel for our own
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To read new configurations in Lighttpd or Apache, as far as I know, requires the software to be restarted (for example service apache restart). Are there any negative effects of this, I'm assuming that whilst being restarted there is a small amount of time during which the software is "down" and websites can't be accessed during that period (probably <1 second). Am I correct?

What is the best way to reload configurations into these http servers without service interruption? I notice that DirectAdmin seems to just restart Apache on any function that alters the configuration file - for example adding a new user.

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Jul 2, 2008

I was recently inroduced to lighttpd being able to run on apache with a different port. So I setup my lighttpd that way.

lighttpd.conf

Code:
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_fastcgi",
"mod_cgi",
"mod_accesslog" )

server.document-root = "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/lighttpd/"

server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"

index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html",
"index.htm", "default.htm" )
and my httpd.conf

Code:
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /lighttpd http://0.0.0.0:81/
ProxyPassReverse / http://0.0.0.0:81/
Now when I created a folder on my server's httpdocs /lighttpd/

everything runs smooth so I got the lighty to work for me.

Okay now that i figure it works I wanted to run one of my subdomain on lighty so that I can reduce the load on the server. Does anyone know how I can setup one of my subdomain to open with lighttpd and keep everything else on apache?

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Oct 9, 2007

I've hired *name* to take care of my server, but it's just getting so frustrating, as it seems they can't fix my server/optimize it correctly.

I just want some input as to what the problem is here.

I got them to install lighttpd along with xcache.

After about 15-18 hours, the server's CPU slowly increases to be using 90-90%, giving me the 500 Internal Server Error.

I've asked them to optimize xcache and lighttpd, but I keep getting these responses:

Quote:

The should be pretty optimized. Xcache has limited optimization features.

Quote:

Lighttpd itself is pretty optimized, the problem is php. Php runs as its own binary and theres not many parameters that can be tweaked.

Is that even correct?

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So I got them to enable apache, and disable lighttpd.

This time, it's the other way around.

My ram get's completely used up, forcing the server to use Swap; making the load shoot to 50+. CPU usage is fine the entire way.

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This has been going back and forth, enabling/disabling lighttpd and re-enabling apache but a problem always comes up each time.

Am I asking for too much?

Server specs;
Intel C2D E6400
4GB Ram

There is only one IPB board on this server - nothing else.

Average users is 70-200 users within 15 minutes.

This is what I'm getting when lighttpd is on:

Code:
top - 22:56:02 up 18:46, 1 user, load average: 23.38, 22.84, 22.44
Tasks: 117 total, 17 running, 100 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 95.0%us, 4.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4147196k total, 1346888k used, 2800308k free, 203144k buffers
Swap: 2907756k total, 0k used, 2907756k free, 712584k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2401 mysql 15 0 318m 107m 3868 S 44 2.6 49:02.02 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib
3279 root 15 0 27712 15m 2900 S 12 0.4 10:33.81 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3272 root 16 0 29752 16m 2908 R 11 0.4 10:15.94 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3266 root 15 0 27536 14m 2920 S 11 0.4 10:40.14 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3270 root 16 0 27624 14m 2908 R 11 0.4 10:36.71 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3267 root 16 0 27796 14m 2972 R 10 0.4 10:35.22 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3268 root 15 0 28148 15m 3112 S 10 0.4 10:49.86 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3276 root 16 0 27696 15m 2900 R 10 0.4 10:29.73 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3269 root 16 0 28312 15m 2916 R 10 0.4 10:23.57 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3274 root 16 0 27924 15m 2912 R 10 0.4 10:44.51 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3275 root 16 0 29368 16m 2928 R 9 0.4 10:41.84 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3278 root 15 0 29432 16m 2876 S 9 0.4 10:28.52 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3271 root 16 0 26784 14m 2900 R 9 0.3 10:41.61 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3277 root 16 0 27156 14m 2928 R 9 0.4 10:31.07 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3265 root 15 0 28408 15m 2880 S 8 0.4 10:46.89 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3280 root 16 0 27036 14m 2880 R 8 0.3 10:43.20 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3273 root 15 0 24676 12m 2952 R 8 0.3 10:43.57 /usr/local/lighttpd/bin/php-cgi
3262 root 15 0 13356 11m 632 R 3 0.3 3:04.27 /usr/local/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd.conf
1 root 15 0 2032 648 552 S 0 0.0 0:00.36 init [3]
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/0]
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 R 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ksoftirqd/0]
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/0]
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [migration/1]
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ksoftirqd/1]
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/1]
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [events/0]
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [events/1]
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper]
11 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthread]
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kblockd/0]
16 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kblockd/1]

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Dec 31, 2007

at Lighttpd, and after trying for 2 hours to convert/rewrite apache's rewriterule into Lighttpd format, I became extremely confused.

Here's what I have in apache's rewriterule:

Code:
RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} ^false [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^basic [NC]
RewriteCond /root/to/a/folder/%{REMOTE_USER} -f
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Apr 19, 2007

How do I configure Lighttpd to serve images/javascript/css files that are littered about my websites? Can I just input the paths of all the directories that I want Lighttpd to serve from?

For example, I have 4 separate websites with each having a message board, main page etc... Could I have lighty serve the files from:

/var/www/html/site1/images
/var/www/html/site2/images
/var/www/html/site3/images
/var/www/html/site4/images
/var/www/html/site1/javascript
etc....

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Apr 24, 2007

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I know that lighttpd and apache can do it but I don`t need it on that way!

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I dowload a scripts with a .htaccess file

Code:
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
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RewriteRule ^link/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)[/]*$ /redirect.php?tag=$1

I want to convert it to lighttpd rewrite rules, urgent, also I can't contact with the scripts author,

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May 15, 2009

I am struggling to get this .htaccess file to work with lighttpd, i am not a coder so its very hard for me to fix it, hopefully if someone knows how can tell me how to write rewrite code that will get it working.
{quote}

1. Comment the 2 lines below if the server returns 500 errors!
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

#Uncomment following lines if you want to use image caching!
#<IfModule mod_expires.c>

1. ExpiresActive On
2. ExpiresDefault A1209600
3. ExpiresByType text/html A1
#</IfModule>

1. Uncomment following lines if Apache doesnt support MultiViews!
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
1. Uncomment the 2 lines below if you are using www.domain.com # as the baseurl for the site and users access your site # via domain.com (THIS IS REQUIRED FOR JQUERY TO WORK)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* loader.php [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

1. Edit below lines and set to
2. ErrorDocument CODE /RELATIVE/error.php
3. If the script is installed in the default document
4. root then relative is null.
#ErrorDocument 401 /error.php
#ErrorDocument 403 /error.php
#ErrorDocument 404 /error.php {/quote}

looks like its calling the rule from loader.php file, now how can i convert this to lighttpd language,

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I'm using CentOS 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5
and
lighttpd-1.5.0-r1992
Here's the config:
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"mod_access",
"mod_trigger_b4_dl",
"mod_status",
"mod_proxy_core",
"mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi",
"mod_uploadprogress"
)
upload-progress.progress-url = "/progress"
server.network-backend = "gthread-aio"
server.max-fds = 15000
server.max-connections = 10000
server.event-handler = "linux-sysepoll"
I've actually been having this issue since I've moved to lighttpd 1.5, 1.4 was working fine but I need the features in 1.5. I've tried changing the event handler and network backend to no avail.

How can I at least find out what's causing the error?

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Quote:

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url.redirect = ("^/(.*)" => "http://%1/$1")
url.rewrite-once = ("^/(.*)?/?files/(.*)" =>
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}

and its showing following error

Quote:

mod_rewrite.c.293: (error) url.rewrite contains a regex for '/' which
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Jun 17, 2008

i have small - mid size forum

1) 25k members with 100 - 125 members / guest being online at all times. about 400,000 page views per month
2) software pages static html about 200,000 page views per month.
3) a script library which get about 200,000 page views per month
4) i get about 2000 - 2500 software downloads per day. each download between 1mb to 3 mb give or take

i would estimate a total of 1 million page views per month...

a) i am using Apache right now would lighttpd help?
b) if yes, how does one go about switching from Apache to Lighthtpd
c) is it easy to manage and optimize lighttpd?
d) can i just ask for lighttpd to be installed as default by any hosting company out there?
e) does lighttpd support cPanel?

currently i am on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+(2 Ghz) with 2 GB RAM.

my server loads are sky high - anywhere between 10, 15 and 20.

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Nov 9, 2007

Lighttpd works well with static file.

But for php, it's totally not good for me
I just install lighttpd and php.

By [url]

Now It takes about 10 seconds for the
server to response.

Here is a part of config file
############ Options you really have to take care of
####################
server.max-keep-alive-requests = 4
server.max-keep-alive-idle = 4
server.max-read-idle = 60
server.max-write-idle = 1024
server.max-fds = 8192

php.ini using the default one
Here is the link to it
[url]

And only about 200 connections. the load average is only 0.02.

When I check the error log
2007-11-08 12:38:46: (server.c.1253) NOTE: a request for
/view_video.php?viewkey=f8e13f14b405e038deb6&page=&viewtype=&category=
timed out after writing 13068 bytes. We waited 1024 seconds. If this a
problem increase server.max-write-idle
2007-11-08 12:40:07: (server.c.1253) NOTE: a request for
/view_video.php?viewkey=b9530df88f7f002e78ea timed out after writing
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