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How to install Lighttpd web server on CentOS and RHEL using Yum

Apr 01, 2019 pm 03:20 PM

Lighttpd is a high-performance web server suitable for running in production environments. It is a highly optimized, secure and very flexible web server; LightTPD uses very low memory and CPU compared to other web servers. Its event-driven architecture is optimized for large numbers of parallel connections (keep-alive)

How to install Lighttpd web server on CentOS and RHEL using Yum

Lighttpd powers some popular Web 2.0 sites. It provides high-speed IO infrastructure that enables them to scale many times on the same hardware. This was developed with future networks in mind, such as faster FastCGI, COMET compliant mod_mailbox, and asynchronous IO.

You can follow the steps below to install Lighttpd on a RHEL-based system.

Step 1: Add EPEL repository

EPEL yum repository has the latest Lighttpd package, first add EPEL yum repository in your system.

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Install LightTPD server

Use yum package manager to install lighttpd

# yum install lighttpd lighttpd-fastcgi
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * epel: mirrors.ispros.com.bd
 * extras: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * updates: mirror.nhanhoa.com
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package lighttpd.i686 0:1.4.35-1.el6 will be installed
---> Package lighttpd-fastcgi.i686 0:1.4.35-1.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: spawn-fcgi for package: lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.35-1.el6.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package spawn-fcgi.i686 0:1.6.3-1.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

===================================================================================================
 Package                       Arch              Version                   Repository         Size
===================================================================================================
Installing:
 lighttpd                      i686              1.4.35-1.el6              epel              300 k
 lighttpd-fastcgi              i686              1.4.35-1.el6              epel               45 k
Installing for dependencies:
 spawn-fcgi                    i686              1.6.3-1.el6               epel               16 k

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================
Install       3 Package(s)

Total download size: 361 k
Installed size: 818 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): lighttpd-1.4.35-1.el6.i686.rpm                                       | 300 kB     00:00
(2/3): lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.35-1.el6.i686.rpm                               |  45 kB     00:00
(3/3): spawn-fcgi-1.6.3-1.el6.i686.rpm                                      |  16 kB     00:00
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                              206 kB/s | 361 kB     00:01
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
google-chrome-stable-34.0.1847.116-1.i386 has missing requires of libnss3.so(NSS_3.14.3)
  Installing : lighttpd-1.4.35-1.el6.i686                                                      1/3
  Installing : spawn-fcgi-1.6.3-1.el6.i686                                                     2/3
  Installing : lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.35-1.el6.i686                                              3/3

Installed:
  lighttpd.i686 0:1.4.35-1.el6                 lighttpd-fastcgi.i686 0:1.4.35-1.el6

Dependency Installed:
  spawn-fcgi.i686 0:1.6.3-1.el6

Complete!

Step 3: Configure LightTPD server

Before starting the lighttpd configuration, make sure selinux is disabled in the system.

# getenforece

Now edit the Lighttpd configuration file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

server.use-ipv6 = "disable"
server.max-fds = 2048

server.use-ipv6: Setting this value to "diable" will allow the server to listen for IPv6 connections and disable IPv6 connect.

server.max-fds Lighttpd is a single-threaded server whose main resource limit is the number of file descriptors, which is set to 1024 by default (on most systems). To handle high traffic sites, you can set this to 2048.

Step 4: Start the LightTPD server

Finally use the following command to start the lighttpd service

# service lighttpd start

To stop or restart the server, use the following command.

# service lighttpd stop
# service lighttpd restart

Make lighttpd start when the server starts

# chkconfig lighttpd on

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