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 :
- Accept License agreement.
- Specify an installation location.
- 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 1.1.0Release date: 10/10/2023
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Wlighttpd 1.0.0Release date: 26/09/2023
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Release news
- 2023-11-22 OpenSSL tool 1.8.0
- 2023-10-10 cwDup 4.1.3
- 2023-10-10 Wlighttpd 1.1.0
- 2023-10-10 CowAxess 2.1.0
- 2023-10-09 Rsync Client Helper GUI 1.0.3.10