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Lighttpd is a lightweight and high-performance event-driven web server.

Lighttpd is a lightweight and high-performance event-driven web server.

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Cherrypy : Do I really need to put it behind a frontend?

I've been working on a python web app using cherrypy and read it'd be more "robust" to use it as a backend, so I gave it a try. Shortly put, running some benchmarks on a page doing some database operations and serving static & dynamic content has…
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Flask deployement on lighttpd and raspberry pi

I'm trying to deploy a hello flask app to a raspberry pi using lighttpd fastCGI. I followed the instructions on the http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/deploying/fastcgi/ to the best of my ability Here is my flask app (/var/www/demoapp/hello.py) from…
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Conditional Lighttpd configuration based on request headers

Is it possible to conditionally configure Lighttpd based on custom request headers? It's possible to do so by IP address (and other variables): $HTTP["remoteip"] == "0.0.0.0" { // Do something } Is there something similar for request headers,…
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What would you recommend for a high traffic ajax intensive website?

For a website like reddit with lots of up/down votes and lots of comments per topic what should I go with? Lighttpd/Php or Lighttpd/CherryPy/Genshi/SQLAlchemy? and for database what would scale better / be fastest MySQL ( 4.1 or 5 ? ) or PostgreSQL?
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lighttpd configuration to proxy/rewrite from one domain to another

i need to setup proxy/rewrite on lighttpd! i have server1, which serves via http 2 different web app paths: * http://server1/path1 * http://server1/path2 also, i have lighttpd server in front of server1 i want to setup rewriting and/or proxing on…
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How to display PHP errors when using Lighttpd and Fast-CGI?

I'm running a Lighttpd webserver using FastCGI and the webserver does not output PHP Parse Errors. My php.ini file has the following settings: error_reporting = E_ALL display_errors = Off display_startup_errors = Off log_errors = On html_errors =…
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Lighttpd load balancing configuration

I am configuring a Load balancer in Play Framework using Lighttpd 1.4.30. I have given entries in lighttpd-inc.conf as below. $HTTP["host"] =~ "http://10.74.9.109:9020" { proxy.balance = "round-robin" proxy.server = ( "/" => ( ( "host" =>…
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Django and fcgi - logging question

I have a site running in Django. Frontend is lighttpd and is using fcgi to host django. I start my fcgi processes as follows: python2.6 //manage.py runfcgi maxrequests=10 host=127.0.0.1 port=8000 pidfile=django.pid For logging, I have a…
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Magento: Lighttpd vs Nginx

I'm using Apache in all my Magento installations. I wonder if I should start to use Lighttpd or Nginx to improve performance. What do you think? EDIT 1 I've seen that: nginx:…
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fastcgi multiplexing?

I'm in process of implementation of a fastcgi application, after reading fastCGI spec I've found a feature called "request multiplexing". It reminded me Adobe RTMP multiplexing back in the days that protocol was proprietary and closed. As far as I…
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Best practice for integrating CherryPy web-framework, SQLAlchemy sessions and lighttpd to serve a high-load webservice

I'm developing a CherryPy FastCGI server behind lighttpd with the following setup to enable using ORM SQLAlchemy sessions inside CherryPy controllers. However, when I run stress tests with 14 concurrent requests for about 500 loops, it starts to…
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Running Rails and PHP on Lighttpd on Linux

Well, I'm wondering if theres a way to run both rails and PHP on Lighty, on Ubuntu. I want to run both my PHP projects and Rails projects on the one server/domain. I have little experience with Linux really, so forgive my naivety. If theres a way of…
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lighttpd + perl + mojolicious =?

Does mojolicious working under the lighttpd web-server? How to cofigure? Does I need setup the FastCGI? It's my first usage of lighttpd.
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V8 engine compiles JavaScript to machine code. So, why node.js isn't faster than C?

According to language benchmarks, JavaScript V8 is faster than other programming languages at regex-dna program. So, why node.js applications (i.e. http server) isn't faster than C applications (i.e. Nginx, Lighttpd)?
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.htaccess rewrite to another port

I have a joomla setup in my /home/joomla directory. I installed both Apache and Lighttpd i have configured Lighttpd to proxy only static files, and lighttpd is listening on port 81. Now what i want is whenever request for static files are made,…
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