… show additional information from lighttpd mod_auth to protect mod_status from unauthorized access 
and mod_proxy is proxy by itself to enable status uncomment or add status.status-url = “/server-status” to lighttpd.conf to protect… meantime set KeepAlive Off, as we want apache only handling dynamic pages. 2. put next lines to lighttpd.conf: $HTTP["url"] !~ “\.(js…
Post: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 17, 2008 By 28 Comments
Post: Speedup your LAMP stack with LigHTTPD
May 21, 2006 By 14 Comments
… legacy applications. Use Reverse proxy in front. You may configure other Apache server to use as reverse proxy, you may also use Squid, Lighttpd, Nginx etc…, setting them to be directly services by reverse proxy servers could be enough. The note about LigHTTPD – I like this one in particular…
Comment: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 18, 2008 By 28 Comments
We use Apache with threaded MPM as reverse proxy (and for static files) and Apache prefork MPM for serving … MPM Apache has decent memory consumption and almost same performance as lighttpd with sendfile network module.
Comment: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 17, 2008 By 28 Comments
This is interesting – we actually do the opposite – apache as reverse proxy + mod_security + static file handling in front of the lighttpd/fcgi.
Comment: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 22, 2007 By 12 Comments
… store-and-forward nature of lighttpd is good for getting data away from the backends as quickly as possible regardless of client speed… me before, when I was proxying large files off a backend squid server. I know two reverse proxies that have hybrid S&F…
Comment: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd
November 23, 2007 By 12 Comments
I had the problem with Nginx too, when i downloaded a big file (750M), and using Nginx as a reversed proxy before 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.
