Introduction To Lighttpd Training Course:
lighttpd is pronounced as “lighty”. It the open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure & flexible. lighttpd is an secure, fast, compliant, & very flexible web-server that has been optimized for the high-performance environments. It has very low memory footprint compared to that of other webservers & takes care of cpu_load. Its advanced feature,set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting & many more) make the lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers the load problems.It is FastCGI which can be configured to support PHP with opcode caches (like APC) properly & efficiently. Additionally, it has received attention from its popularity within the Python, Perl, Ruby & Lua communities. Register for Lighttpd Training now to know more details.
Lighttpd Online Training Course Content
Lighttpd Course Content 1. Introduction
2. Building lighttpd
- Installing lighttpd
- Different approaches for building lighttpd
3. Configuring and running lighttpd
- Starting lighttpd by hand
- Other core options
- MIME types
- Selectors
- Will include regular expression tutorial if needed
- Rewriting and redirecting requests
- Including variables, files, and shell code
4. More virtual hosting and CGI
- Extended virtual hosting
- MySQL-based virtual hosting
- Going dynamic
- CGI with mod_cgi
- FastCGI and or SCGI
5. Downloads and streams
- Core settings
- Traffic shaping
- Securing downloads
- Streaming content
6. Access logging and user tracking
- Access logging
- Tracking users
7. SSL
- Fundamentals of SSL
- Self-signed certificates
- Configuring lighttpd to use SSL
8. Securing lighttpd
- Barriers to entry
- Evading denial of service attacks
- RRDtool
- Grepping the logs for signs of attack
9. Containing lighttpd
- Giving up privileges
- Changing root
10. Optimizing lighttpd
- Installing http_load
- Caching with mod_magnet
- Measuring system load
- Profiling with gprof
11. Migration from Apache
- Adding lighttpd to the mix
- mod_proxy
- Reducing Apache load
12. CGI revisited
- Integration with Ruby on Rails
- Installing apps of your choice
13. Using Lua with lighttpd
- Lua primer
- Useful Lua libraries
- Lua with FastCGI
- Running mod_magnet