… lighttpd to list of services (actual only for RedHat / CentOS) cp /doc/rc.lighttpd.redhat /etc/init.d/lighttpd fix path lighttpd=”/usr/local/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd” and add script to autostart chkconfig –add lighttpd chkconfig –level 2345 lighttpd…
Post: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 22, 2007 By 12 Comments
…. As it turned out the systems were slowing down because lighttpd process grew to a few gigabytes eating the entire memory… even though Apache and PHP handled it without much hassle, Lighttpd kept allocating memory to fit the entire response into the… problems will appear with much smaller data being sent through Lighttpd proxy. For example with a PHP script for handling larger…
Post: Speedup your LAMP stack with LigHTTPD
May 21, 2006 By 14 Comments
… like you expect it to work. Use other server, ie lighttpd with FastCGI. Honestly I like this solution more – it allows… to use as reverse proxy, you may also use Squid, Lighttpd, Nginx etc, in fact Most of light http servers support… by reverse proxy servers could be enough. The note about LigHTTPD – I like this one in particular because it is really…
Post: Content delivery system design mistakes
February 11, 2007 By 9 Comments
… static content especially with many thousands of keep-alive connections. Lighttpd is often named as faster alternative. It is surely true… serving many millions of thumbnails it may not work well. Lighttpd 1.4 is single threaded and that single threads is… of such downloads caused a lot of trouble especially as lighttpd tries to buffer all content it gets from PHP script…
Comment: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 18, 2008 By 28 Comments
To all. Regarding lighttpd vs ngnix. Lighttpd is used by youtube.com and wikipedia, so it is … to work in high load environment. When we started use lighttpd it seemed more advanced than ngnix, but currently ngnix is… begin active developed, while author of lighttpd is more interested in mysql-proxy development and lighttpd looks frozen, so I even agree…
Comment: Progress with ClickAider project
October 29, 2007 By 21 Comments
… which would show significantly better performance for nginx compared to lighttpd ? I’ve seen nginx being say 10% faster for example… multiple workers in lighttpd 1.4 to serve many small files from disk efficiently etc. The choice for lighttpd in this case…
Comment: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 18, 2008 By 28 Comments
Saiyine Lighttpd can compress static files and and compressed result (to not perform compression each time) just enable compression module and use next lines #### compress module #compress.cache-dir = “/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/” #compress.filetype = (“text/plain”, “text/html”)
Comment: Speedup your LAMP stack with LigHTTPD
June 17, 2008 By 14 Comments
[...] often recommend to set lighttpd in front of apache to handle http requests (more about http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/05/21/speedup-your-lamp-stack-with-lighttpd/ ) , redirect dynamic requests to apache and handle static files by itself. I just gathered [...]
Comment: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 26, 2007 By 12 Comments
Julian & Maciej, Considering your input, I will change my server setup and see how it behaves over a period of week. Dieselstation serves high res wallpapers, so probably it makes sense to serve images directly through lighttpd instead of proxying the request from apache to lighttpd.
Comment: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 23, 2007 By 12 Comments
Do you think this problem would exists if the setup was reversed? Meaning, let Apache be your prime server and do the proxy forward for the static content to the lighttpd! In that case, lighttpd will not consume as much memory and will do its job efficiently.
