Installation Instructions

Installing on Ubuntu

Install Lighttpd web server using following command

    $ sudo apt install lighttpd

To test installation, go to your website or IP address

Secure, Flexible And Lightweight Web Server

Installing from source

Download a release from www.lighttpd.net/download.

Use following commands to install via git

    git clone https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4.git
    cd lighttpd1.4
    ./autogen.sh

Use these commands if you want to install via svn

    svn checkout https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/trunk lighttpd1.4

Fetch updates

    svn update

To install dependencies, run this command

    apt-get build-dep lighttpd

Configure

    ./configure --help

Build using make command

    make

After a successful build, now install the package

    su make install
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