Lighttpd is a web server and load balancer optimized for speed-critical environments products while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible. It is used by many high-traffic websites, including Youtube. Lighttpd supports dynamic HTTP content such as PHP scripts using the FastCGI interface.
Core Features:
- Base distribution: TurnKey 12.1 based on Debian 6.0.7 (Squeeze), TurnKey 13 based on Debian 7.1 (Wheezy)
- Smart backups (TKLBAM): automated backup and restore, with system migration capabilities
- Secure and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches
- Dynamic DNS (hubdns): associates your IP with a custom domain or the free *.tklapp.com domain
- Logical Volume Management (LVM): instead of installing to a fixed size partition, a Logical Volume is first created by default, and this may later be expanded, even across multiple physical devices
- AJAX web shell (shellinabox) - secure command line access from any web browser
- Web management interface (Webmin)
- Listens on port 12321 (uses SSL)
- Mac OS X themed
- Network modules
- Firewall configuration (with example configuration)
- Network configuration
- System modules
- Backup and migration (TKLBAM)
- Configure time, date and timezone
- Configure users and groups
- Manage software packages
- Change passwords
- System logs
- Tool modules
- Text editor
- Shell commands
- Simple file upload/download
- File manager (needs support for Java in browser)
- Custom commands
- Hardware modules
- Partitions on local disks
- Logical volume management
- Simple configuration console (confconsole)
- Displays basic usage information
- Configure networking
- First boot initialization
- Prompt user for passwords
- Regenerates SSL and SSH cryptographic keys
- Installs latest security updates, unless user chooses to defer this for later
- Uses GeoIP to automatically configure closest APT package archive for maximum network performance
- Command line power tools
- Smart, programmable bash shell completion: helps you get more done with fewer keystrokes.
- Support for $HOME/.bashrc.d shell hooks
- Persistent environment variables (see $HOME/.bashrc.d/penv):
penv-set pydoc /usr/share/doc/python2.6/html exit # later... cd $pydoc
- Automatic time synchronization with NTP
Distribution Features:
- Lighttpd configurations:
- Lighttpd configured with FastCGI PHP support.
- All components installed and maintaiend through the package management system.
- TurnKey Web Control panel with links to useful references and resources.
- SSL support out of the box
- PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL)
- Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery)
- Webmin modules for configuring PHP, MySQL and Postfix.
Credentials (passwords set at first boot):
- Webmin, SSH, MySQL, phpMyAdmin: username root
