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  1. .TH LIGHTTPD "8" "2009-03-07" "" ""
  2. .
  3. .SH NAME
  4. lighttpd \- a fast, secure and flexible web server
  5. .
  6. .SH SYNOPSIS
  7. \fBlighttpd\fP [\fB\-ptDvVh\fP] \fB\-f\fP \fIconfigfile\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fImoduledir\fP]
  8. .
  9. .SH DESCRIPTION
  10. \fBlighttpd\fP (pronounced 'lighty') is an advanced HTTP daemon that aims
  11. to be secure, fast, compliant and very flexible. It has been optimized for
  12. high performance. Its feature set includes, but is not limited to, FastCGI,
  13. CGI, basic and digest HTTP authentication, output compression, URL rewriting.
  14. .PP
  15. This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details
  16. on how to configure \fBlighttpd\fP and its modules see the files in the
  17. doc-directory.
  18. .
  19. .SH OPTIONS
  20. The following options are supported:
  21. .TP 8
  22. \fB\-f\ \fP \fIconfigfile\fP
  23. Load configuration file \fIconfigfile\fP.
  24. .TP 8
  25. \fB\-m\ \fP \fImoduledir\fP
  26. Use
  27. \fImoduledir\fP
  28. as the directory that contains modules, instead of the default.
  29. .TP 8
  30. \fB\-p\fP
  31. Print the parsed configuration file in its internal form and exit.
  32. .TP 8
  33. \fB\-t\fP
  34. Test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit.
  35. .TP 8
  36. \fB\-D\fP
  37. Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemonize.
  38. .TP 8
  39. \fB\-v\fP
  40. Show version and exit.
  41. .TP 8
  42. \fB\-V\fP
  43. Show compile-time features and exit.
  44. .TP 8
  45. \fB\-h\fP
  46. Show a brief help message and exit.
  47. .
  48. .SH FILES
  49. .TP 8
  50. /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
  51. The standard location for the configuration file.
  52. .TP 8
  53. /var/run/lighttpd.pid
  54. The standard location for the PID of the running \fBlighttpd\fP process.
  55. .
  56. .SH SEE ALSO
  57. Online Documentation: http://wiki.lighttpd.net/
  58. .PP
  59. spawn-fcgi(1)
  60. .PP
  61. \fIHypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1\fP, RFC 2616.
  62. .PP
  63. \fIHTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication\fP, RFC 2617.
  64. .PP
  65. \fIThe Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1\fP, RFC 3875.
  66. .PP
  67. \fIThe FastCGI specification\fP.
  68. .
  69. .SH AUTHOR
  70. Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de>