LightTPD

LightTPD Andre Bogus   Installing, compiling, configuring, optimizing, and securing this lightning-fast web server   Install, configure, and work with LightPPD Migrate from Apache to LightTPD Set up Ruby on Rails, WordPress, MediaWiki etc. Understand and harness Lua/FastCGI Write custom modules/plugins for the LightTPD API In More Detail   Expected September 2008. Pre-order now! Cover price   $39.99 Standard   $35.99 save 10% Multi-buy Discount   $32.79 save 18% order two or more items Change Currency   UK £ US $ EU € what is this? Free shipping! US, UK, Europe & selected Asian countries Pre-order offer terms Where else can I buy this book? Also available from: select a store Lehmans (DE)Dataclub OY (FI)Temporeal (BR)Combooks (Israel)Amazon (US)Quantum Books (US MA)Amazon.de (DE)Amazon.co.uk (UK)Bookware.com (AU)Polyteknisk (DK)Amazon.fr (FR)

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Language English
Paperback 200 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date Expected September 2008
ISBN 1847192106
ISBN 13 978-1-847192-10-3
Author(s) Andre Bogus
Topics and Technologies Open Source, Linux Servers

This is your fast guide to getting started and getting inside the LightTPD web server. Written from a developer's perspective, this book helps you understand LightTPD, and get it set up as securely and quickly as possible.

LightTPD is a secure, flexible, and most importantly, light web server designed and optimized for high performance environments. It is open-source and licensed under the revised BSD license. Its event-driven architecture optimized for a large number of parallel connections, its advanced features (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output Compression, URL Rewriting, and many more), and its small memory footprint compared to other web servers, make LightTPD the perfect server software for every web server that suffers load problems or for serving static media separately from dynamic content.

LightTPD supports the FastCGI, SCGI, and CGI interfaces to external programs, permitting web applications written in any programming language to be used with this server. Excellent performance for PHP, a particularly popular language, has received special attention. Additionally, LightTPD has become popular within the Ruby on Rails community.

The book teaches the reader to install, configure, and work with LightPPD:

• Working with LightTPD 's web application interfaces
• Configuring LightTPD to use SSL
• Preventing attacks and minimizing damage if attacked
• Virtual hosting
• Migration from Apache to LightTPD
• Setting up web applications and frameworks: Ruby on Rails, WordPress, MediaWiki, trac, AjaxTerm
• Understand and harness Lua/FastCGI
• Writing custom modules/plugins for the LightTPD API

This book is for System Administrators or Web Developers seeking a lean deployment platform for web applications or who want to switch to a "lighter" web server than Apache.

Andre Bogus