lighttpd

Install command:
brew install lighttpd

Small memory footprint, flexible web-server

https://www.lighttpd.net/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/lighttpd.json

Formula code: lighttpd.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 1.4.85

Depends on:

openldap 2.7.1 Open source suite of directory software
openssl@3 3.6.4 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pcre2 10.48 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.73 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.18.1 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
libtool 2.6.2 Generic library support script
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: bzip2, libxcrypt

Binaries: lighttpd, lighttpd-angel

Service:

Start now and at login: brew services start lighttpd
Run directly: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/lighttpd/bin/lighttpd -D -f $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Docroot is: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/www

The default port has been set in $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf to 8080 so that
lighttpd can run without sudo.

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