lighttpd

lighttpd

Features

Advanced Features:

* virtual hosts

* virtual directory listings

* URL-Rewriting, HTTP-Redirects

* automatic expiration of files

* Large File Support (64bit fileoffsets)

* Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)

* on-the-fly output-compression with transparent caching

o deflate, gzip, bzip2

* authentification

o basic, digest

o backends: plain files, htpasswd, htdigest, ldap

* fast and secure application controlled downloads

* Server Side Includes

* User Tracking

* FastCGI, CGI, SSI

PHP-Support:

* same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4

* includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (neccesary for PHP 4.3.x)

* via FastCGI and CGI interface

* support Code Caches like Turckmm, APC or eaccelarator

* load-balanced FastCGI

(one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)

Security features:

* chroot(), set UID, set GID

* protecting docroot

* strict HTTP-header parsing

動作の軽いHTTPサーバ。

必要十分な機能は備えているので、負荷の高いサーバではApacheの代替にいいかもしれないですね。