lighttpd(发音为lighty)是一套开放源代码的网页服务器,以BSD许可证放出.相较于其他的网页服务器,lighttpd仅需少量的 内存及CPU资源即可达到同样的效能.
# 提供 FastCGI 及 SCGI 的负载平衡
# 支持 chroot
# 支持 select()/poll() 及更有效率的 kqueue/epoll 连线状态判断 # 支持条件重写(Conditional rewrites)
# 支持SSL连线下载:lighttpd 1.4.26 rc1

# 透过LDAP server认证
# rrdtool状态输出
# Rule-based downloading
# Server-side includes support
# Virtual hosting
# Modules support
# Cache Meta Language
# Minimal WebDAV support
# Servlet (AJP) support(1.5.x 版后)

ps:修复了一些重大bug(当然包括前段时间爆出的那个).如果没有重大，正式发布版会不久后放出。
1.4 分支稳定后，1.5 不打算开发，直接跳至2.0分支.
Changelog since 1.4.25:

• Fix request parser to handle packets with splitted rnrn (fixes #2105)
• Remove dependency on automake >= 1.11 with m4_ifdef check
• mod_accesslog: support %e (fixes #2113, thx presbrey)
• Fix mod_cgi cgi.execute-x-only option in global block
• mod_fastcgi: x-sendfile2 parse error debugging
• Fix mod_proxy dead host detection if connect() fails
• Fix fd leaks in mod_cgi (fds not closed on pipe/fork failures, found by Rodrigo, fixes #2158, #2159)
• Fix segfault with broken rewrite/redirect patterns (fixes #2140, found by crypt)
• Append to previous buffer in con read, fix DoS/OOM vulnerability (fixes #2147, found by liming, CVE-2010-0295)