Talk:Lighttpd

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[edit] Site is down

lighttpd website has been down for quite a while for me; hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come. Perle 00:38, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The site has been working for quite some while now. --Acolyte of Discord 19:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Even more support

LigHTTPd supports more than just poll() and select() nowadays. Currently it has epoll() (Linux 2.6) and rtsig (AIO? Linux 2.5), /dev/epoll (for Solaris) and unfinished kqueue() (for BSD) support. [Source] --Acolyte of Discord 19:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wikipedia runs on lighttpd?

I thought i would bring this up since it is of especial concern to the wikipedia community (or, at least, to me). I remember reading mentions of this before, but I've never really bothered to verify the claim until now.

Since I just stumbled onto the latest lighty blog entry which makes the claim that wikipedia runs on lighty, I thought I would try to verify this - search around wikipedia, look at the about page, look at the technical information page (Help:Contents/Technical_information)... Nothing! So should the site admins at least say something to either verify, or dispute the claim? --Autodidaktor 07:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you... I found the claim that wikipedia was running on lighty quite surprising, so I came to this page. I then did a WGET and checked the headers myself. The results show that the server is Apache. I see nothing that suggests Lighty is being used... maybe someone else could take a look? Here is the output:
 $ wget -O /dev/null -S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lighttpd
 --14:10:05--  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lighttpd
          => `/dev/null'
 Resolving en.wikipedia.org... 66.230.200.100
 Connecting to en.wikipedia.org|66.230.200.100|:80... connected.
 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
   HTTP/1.0 200 OK
   Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:08:31 GMT
   Server: Apache
   X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.2
   Content-Language: en
   Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
   Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate
   Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:08:02 GMT
   Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
   X-Cache: MISS from sq17.wikimedia.org
   X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from sq17.wikimedia.org:80
   Via: 1.0 sq17.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE9)
   Connection: close

[[]] 19:21, 11 February 2007 (UTC) David

upload.wikimedia.org was switched to lighty a while back. The main site runs Squid in a reverse proxy configuration with an Apache/MySQL backend. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 20:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.wikipedia.org says apache --87.127.117.246 18:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
But http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=upload.wikimedia.org shows lhttpd in the mix. That is doing image storage and retrieval. Wikipedia has servers and software between you and upload.wikimedia.org to (amongst other things) resize images to fit between the text. If you just want to get a raw image file you can take it direct from the lhttpd server at upload.wikimedia.org e.g. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Wikimedia-servers-2006-05-09.png. Wikipedia#Software_and_hardware doesn't seem to be particularly up to date. William Avery 20:48, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Continuing your point, I guess they have heard of the aforementioned doubts, so they wrote a whole article that explains how dynamic 2.0 sites such as Wikipedia use this program to run special servers that just deal with static content. So it's specific parts of Wikipedia that use this program and not Wikipedia as a whole. Their article is now linked in the article here. -Lwc4life (talk) 17:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] lhttpd?

Is lighttpd synonymous with/a fork of lhttpd, or are they completely unrelated? Googling suggests that lhttpd, lighttpd, lighty are used interchangeably. The old lhttpd seems abandoned since xmas 2001. (More confusion: Leahttpd also calls itself lhttpd) --87.162.45.42 22:56, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know the two are unrelated, check 'The Server' at the bottom of http://www.lighttpd.net/the-story/ for info about where / how / why. --Streaky 19:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)