Although I haven’t built Nginx for Windows and Lighttpd for Windows in a while, I need your help. I’m trying to determine if there is enough interest for me to create my Cygwin based builds again. So even if you have never left a comment here before, please do today. Please let me know:

• if you are interested in: Nginx and/or Lighttpd for Windows
• which version of Windows you will be running on: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 7
• if your Windows version is 32-bit or 64-bit

This is very important! Please leave a comment below right now. Thanks as always for reading!

Packt Publishing has released a new book about Lighttpd, the small memory footprint web server.

I have been authorized by Packt to make “Chapter 10 Migrating from Apache” from the book available here.

I hope you find this PDF to be beneficial, and to give you a rough idea as to what the book covers.

Full disclosure: I am not affiliated with the Lighttpd project or Packt Publishing. I was the first maintainer of Lighttpd for Windows, and as such, Packt is providing me with a hard copy of the book.

I am not necessarily endorsing the book, but I am hoping that you find the Chapter 10 PDF valuable. If you do like it, by all means order the hard copy book or the eBook. Thanks, and please let me know what you think in the comments.

PLEASE NOTE: Native Lighttpd Windows builds are available at http://en.wlmp-project.net/
The last available Lighttpd for Windows build that I created using Cygwin was Lighttpd for Windows 1.4.17. Updated September 29, 2009.

For anyone who has downloaded my builds of lighttpd for windows in the past, or for anyone still running older versions of lighttpd for windows, whether mine or the WLMP Project‘s:

The WLMP Project has released lighttpd 1.4.20 for windows.

I have not tried it myself, so please do not ask me for help or support. This is a big shout out and thank you to the WLMP Project for their continued efforts with packaging lighttpd for windows.

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I was just over at Adobe’s Photoshop Express test drive site, and I noticed that they are running the yet to be released lighttpd/1.5.0 :
[kevdev]$ curl -I https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?bypass&wf=testdrive
[kevdev]$ HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-ozzy-version: 1.1.7275 (built from production branch)
Content-Type: text/html
ETag: "408377048"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:43:52 GMT
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:24:26 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.5.0
Content-Length: 11747
[kevdev]$

Even though I just released the pre-release RPMs (and SRPMs) a few hours ago, here are the proper 1.4.19 packages, based on 1.4.19 sources from www.lighttpd.net:

1.4.19 RPMs Download link

Official lighttpd site’s announcement, that I totally missed until a few moments ago.

Now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS versions 4 and 5:
lighttpd 1.4.19 Pre-release r2118 RPMs and SRPMs – Download Links.

As always, feedback is welcome.

PLEASE NOTE: Native Lighttpd Windows builds are available at http://en.wlmp-project.net/
The last available Lighttpd for Windows build that I created using Cygwin was Lighttpd for Windows 1.4.17. Updated September 29, 2009.

In the comments below, please list your site(s) that use any of my lighttpd builds. My goal is to get a rough head count and it gives you a plug to your site – I sincerely hope that this little blog can send some traffic your way. So please take a second and list what and where you run. Thank you in advance.

I’ll give an example using my site to start off the list:

format:
Name/Nickname – lighttpd version and platform – URL

Kevin Worthington – lighttpd/1.4.18 on linux – http://kevinworthington.com/

Now that Fedora 8 is here, I have rebuilt lighttpd on it.

Grab the binary RPMS here
Or the Source RPMS here

Now available: Lighttpd 1.4.18 RPMs and Lighttpd 1.4.18 Source RPMs. View the README to determine the correct version for your distribution.

PLEASE NOTE: Native Lighttpd Windows builds are available at http://en.wlmp-project.net/
The last available Lighttpd for Windows build that I created using Cygwin was Lighttpd for Windows 1.4.17. Updated September 29, 2009.

Now available for download: Binary and Source RPMs for the 1.5 pre-release Lighttpd-1.5.0-r1992. Choose the correct RPMs for your distribution by viewing the README.txt. Note that this is a testing release that I am providing for you to try, as the Lighttpd team moves closer to the actual 1.5.0 release. Please report bugs to: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/newticket. (Discontinued Link)

Lighttpd blog announcement is here.