How To Install Lighttpd on CentOS

In this tutorial we will install and configuration of Lighttpd on CentOS Linux server.

Lighttpd is a fast and secure web-server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to install lighttpd web server on centOS.

Install Lighttpd on CentOS

Step 1. First add EPEL yum repository your system.

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

Step 2. Install Lighttpd using yum package manager

 yum install lighttpd lighttpd-fastcgi

Step 3. Start Lighttpd Server

 service lighttpd start

Step 4. Testing Lighttpd

To make sure everything installed correctly we will now test Lighttpd to ensure it is working properly. Open up any web browser and then enter the following into the web address:

 http://localhost/  or  http://your.ip.addr.ess

Note: Lighttpd’s default document root is /srv/www/lighttpd, you can use this or change it by editing the configuration file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed lighttpd. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing lighttpd web server on CentOS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official lighttpd web site.

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