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Reduce Apache Load With lighttpd On Debian Etch Linux

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Lighttpd, sometimes pronounced “Lighty”, is a lightweight HTTP server that can help alleviate Apache’s load by serving static content. Since Lighttpd uses less resources per request than Apache, it generally serves most static content faster than Apache. This tutorial shows how to install Lighttpd behind Apache via Apache´s proxy module.

No guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Requirements

To install such a system you will need the following:

2 Setting up lighttpd

Once Lighttpd is installed, you’ll have to modify the configuration file to use it

vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

#bind to port (Default: 80)
server.port = 81

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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 8

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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 01/11/2008

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 8 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.

2 Installing MySQL 5.0

First we install MySQL 5.0 like this:

yum install mysql mysql-server

Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:

chkconfig –levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start

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