Lighttpd by Bogus, Andre -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Lighttpd

Lighttpd 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 Summary

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 Summary

4. Downloads and Streams

Core Settings Traffic Shaping Showing Directory Contents Securing Downloads Streaming Content Putting it All Together Summary

5. Big Brother Lighttpd

Privacy O Browser, Where Art Thou? Access Logging Tracking Users Other Data Points Summary

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 Summary

7. Securing Lighttpd

Barriers to Entry Evading Denial of Service Attacks

Setting up Logrotate

Know Your Foe

RRDtool Grepping the Logs

Summary

8. Containing Lighttpd

Giving up Privileges Changing Root Separating the Backend Summary

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

Summary

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 Summary

11. CGI Revisited

Ruby on Rails WordPress phpMyAdmin MediaWiki Trac AWStats AjaxTerm Summary

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 Summary

13. Writing Lighttpd Modules

Handling Configuration Rewriting the Request Manipulating the Response Summary

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

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