From Pi My Life Up:
In this project, we will be exploring how to setup a Lighttpd Web Server on your Raspberry Pi. Lighttpd like NGINX is a fast and memory efficient alternative to Apache that is designed to have a relatively low memory footprint and a small CPU load, both of which are perfect qualities for the Raspberry Pi. One of the largest users of Lighttpd is the Wikimedia Foundation.
We will be exploring how to setup a basic Lighttpd server running off the default configuration, while also exploring on how to setup Lighttpd to work with PHP-FPM, as this does not work straight off the bat with the Raspbian version of Lighttpd.
There are a ton of other server projects for the Pi that you’re able to do. Each of them have their own pros and cons but the Pi makes for a great little device to test them all.
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