Lighttpd : installing, compiling, configuring, optimizing, and securing this lightning-fast Web Server / Andre Bogus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogus, Andre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web servers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Web servers.

Client/server computing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Client/server computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is for System Administrators or Web Developers seeking a lean deployment platform for web applications or who want to switch to a "lighter" web server than Apache.

Contents:

Intro

Lighttpd

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

What This Book Covers

What You Need For this Book

Who is This Book For

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the Example Code for the Book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to Lighttpd

Installing Lighttpd

Building Lighttpd using Autotools

Building Lighttpd using CMake

Summary

2. Configuring and Running Lighttpd

Starting Lighttpd by Hand

Other Core Options

Mime Types

Selectors

Excursion: Regular Expressions

Play it Again, Sam

Are You There?

Decisions, Decisions

Group and Capture

Lucky Escape

Rewriting and Redirecting Requests

Including Variables, Files, and Shell-code

3. More Virtual Hosting and CGI

Extended Virtual Hosting

MySQL based Virtual Hosting

Installing MySQL

Bringing MySQL and mod_mysqlvhost Together

Going Dynamic

CGI with mod_cgi

FastCGI

SCGI

mod_proxy_core and backends

4. Downloads and Streams

Core Settings

Traffic Shaping

Showing Directory Contents

Securing Downloads

Streaming Content

Putting it All Together

5. Big Brother Lighttpd

Privacy

O Browser, Where Art Thou?

Access Logging

Tracking Users

Other Data Points

6. Encryption: SSL

Self-Signed Keys

Being our own Certificate Authority

Obtaining a Key Pair from a Third-Party Supplier

Configuring Lighttpd to use SSL

7. Securing Lighttpd

Barriers to Entry

Evading Denial of Service Attacks

Setting up Logrotate

Know Your Foe

RRDtool

Grepping the Logs

8. Containing Lighttpd

Giving up Privileges

Changing Root

Separating the Backend

9. Optimizing Lighttpd

Installing http_load.

Running http_load Tests

Specific Optimizations

Example: Caching with mod_magnet

Measuring System Load

Profiling with gprof

Load Testing our Profiling Build

10. Migration from Apache

Adding Lighttpd to the Mix

Excursion: mod_proxy

Reducing Apache Load

mod_perl, mod_php, and mod_python

.htaccess

.htaccess and PHP

Rewriting Rules

WebDAV

11. CGI Revisited

Ruby on Rails

WordPress

phpMyAdmin

MediaWiki

Trac

AWStats

AjaxTerm

12. Using Lua with Lighttpd

Lua: A small Primer

Useful Lua Libraries

Lua/FastCGI

Installing Lua/FastCGI

GET and POST Requests

Looking at the Cache

Running mod_magnet

Example: A Shoutbox

13. Writing Lighttpd Modules

Handling Configuration

Rewriting the Request

Manipulating the Response

A. HTTP Status Codes

B. Module/Configuration Index

Internal

mod_access

mod_accesslog

mod_alias

mod_auth

mod_cgi

mod_cml

mod_chunked

mod_compress

mod_deflate

mod_dirlisting

mod_evasive

mod_evhost

mod_expire

mod_fastcgi

mod_flv_streaming

mod_indexfile

mod_magnet

mod_proxy

mod_proxy_core

mod_redirect

mod_rewrite

mod_rrdtool

mod_scgi

mod_secure_download

mod_setenv

mod_simple_vhost

mod_sql_vhost_core, mod_mysql_vhost

mod_ssi

mod_staticfile

mod_status

mod_trigger_b4_dl

mod_uploadprogress

mod_userdir

mod_usertrack

mod_webdav

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611886981

9781281886989

128188698X

9781847192110

1847192114

OCLC:

317850623