Wlighttpd - Lighttpd for Windows

wlighttpd

Wlighttpd is a basic web server solution for Windows environments. It is a packaging of lighttpd and Cygwin. You can use Wlighttpd as a secure solution with a small footprint for serving https requests.

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd uses memory and CPU efficiently and has lower resource use than other popular web servers. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and much more) makes lighttpd the perfect web server for all systems, small and large. Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of a DLL, which emulates substantial Linux API functionality, and a collection of tools.

Installation

Wlighttpd comes as a ZIP file containing an NSIS installer. Simply unzip your downloaded copy and run the installer :

  1. Accept License agreement.
  2. Specify an installation location.
  3. Installation starts. By clicking 'Details' button, you can get more detailed information about installation.

Usage

The installer will set up the Wlighttpd - Lighttpd service, configurable by the contents of the etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file

 

 You need to:

  • update the configuration file according to your needs. The default one comes with a self signed certificate and redirects http to https for non-local requests. There are many options that can be configured via the configuration file. Check lighttpd wiki for more information.
  • replace the self-signed ssl certificate by your own.

 

You can now start the service and monitor the activity via log files at /var/log folder.

The service is set up in automatic mode and run by the LOCAL SERVICE Account (limited access).

 

Lighttpd provided supports following plugins/features:

Modules Features

mod_access

mod_accesslog

mod_ajp13

mod_alias

mod_auth

mod_authn_file

mod_cgi

mod_deflate

mod_dirlisting

mod_evhost

mod_expire

mod_extforward

mod_fastcgi

mod_indexfile

mod_openssl

mod_proxy

mod_redirect

mod_rewrite

mod_rrdtool

mod_scgi

mod_setenv

mod_simple_vhost

mod_sockproxy

mod_ssi

mod_staticfile

mod_status

mod_userdir

mod_vhostdb

mod_webdav

mod_wstunnel

auth-crypt

compress-deflate

compress-gzip

large-files

network-ipv6

network-openssl

 

Wlighttpd 1.3.0

release date: 
Fri, 04/19/2024
2024

Wlighttpd 1.2.0

release date: 
Mon, 12/18/2023
2023

Wlighttpd 1.1.0

release date: 
Tue, 10/10/2023
2023

Wlighttpd 1.0.0

release date: 
Tue, 09/26/2023
2023

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