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.TH LIGHTTPD "8" "2009-03-07" "" ""
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.SH NAME
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lighttpd \- a fast, secure and flexible web server
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBlighttpd\fP [\fB\-ptDvVh\fP] \fB\-f\fP \fIconfigfile\fP [\fB\-m\fP \fImoduledir\fP]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBlighttpd\fP (pronounced 'lighty') is an advanced HTTP daemon that aims
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to be secure, fast, compliant and very flexible. It has been optimized for
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high performance. Its feature set includes, but is not limited to, FastCGI,
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CGI, basic and digest HTTP authentication, output compression, URL rewriting.
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.PP
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This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details
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on how to configure \fBlighttpd\fP and its modules see the files in the
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doc-directory.
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.SH OPTIONS
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The following options are supported:
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.TP 8
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\fB\-f\ \fP \fIconfigfile\fP
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Load configuration file \fIconfigfile\fP.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-m\ \fP \fImoduledir\fP
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Use
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\fImoduledir\fP
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as the directory that contains modules, instead of the default.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-p\fP
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Print the parsed configuration file in its internal form and exit.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-t\fP
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Test the configuration file for syntax errors and exit.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-tt\fP
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Test the configuration file for syntax errors, load and initialize modules, and exit.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-D\fP
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Do not daemonize (go into background). The default is to daemonize.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-i\ \fP \fIsecs\fP
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Trigger daemon graceful shutdown after \fIsecs\fP of inactivity.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-v\fP
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Show version and exit.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-V\fP
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Show compile-time features and exit.
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.TP 8
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\fB\-h\fP
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Show a brief help message and exit.
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.SH FILES
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.TP 8
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/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
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The standard location for the configuration file.
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.TP 8
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/var/run/lighttpd.pid
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The standard location for the PID of the running \fBlighttpd\fP process.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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Online Documentation: http://wiki.lighttpd.net/
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spawn-fcgi(1)
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.PP
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\fIHypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1\fP, RFC 2616.
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\fIHTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication\fP, RFC 2617.
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\fIThe Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1\fP, RFC 3875.
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\fIThe FastCGI specification\fP.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de>
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