How To Install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8. lighttpd is Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8.
What is lighttpd
Secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make it the perfect webserver-software for every server that is suffering load problems.
We can use yum or dnf to install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lighttpd.
Install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lighttpd
Install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lighttpd
How To Uninstall lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the lighttpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lighttpd
lighttpd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/access_log.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/auth.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/cgi.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/cml.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/compress.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/debug.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/dirlisting.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/evhost.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/expire.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/magnet.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/mime.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/mod.template
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/proxy.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/rrdtool.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/scgi.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/secdownload.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/simple_vhost.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/ssi.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/status.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/trigger_b4_dl.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/userdir.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/webdav.conf
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
/etc/lighttpd/modules.conf
/etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d/vhosts.template
/etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/a564ae9c9ca38c7f18487796f5bb7af223a8c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/5b43b202cef3e5e8ab1c04d4f520d047f2e59f
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/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/487a1ae97ac9e27cde56b14bd193eff4ba58a7
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/usr/lib/.build-id/11/08a7eae7234306752b4b8dfb5b2454330beec4
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/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/f8457c2aeca8ac57c6a96a45dcf1d24b5ba412
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/f2a94d9bfba6f24f7d93437be3f962fa6e9b74
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/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/b0e3121bd272ccb32d3dda35e614936efad05e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.conf
/usr/lib64/lighttpd
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_access.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_accesslog.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_alias.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_auth.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_authn_file.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_authn_ldap.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_authn_pam.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_cgi.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_cml.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_compress.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_deflate.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_dirlisting.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_evasive.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_evhost.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_expire.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_extforward.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_flv_streaming.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_indexfile.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_magnet.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_openssl.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_proxy.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_redirect.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_rewrite.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_rrdtool.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_scgi.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_secdownload.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_setenv.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_simple_vhost.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_sockproxy.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_ssi.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_staticfile.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_status.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_trigger_b4_dl.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_uploadprogress.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_userdir.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_usertrack.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_vhostdb.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_vhostdb_ldap.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_vhostdb_mysql.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_webdav.so
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_wstunnel.so
/usr/sbin/lighttpd
/usr/sbin/lighttpd-angel
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/README
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/access_log.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/auth.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/cgi.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/cml.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/compress.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/debug.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/dirlisting.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/evhost.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/expire.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/fastcgi.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/geoip.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/magnet.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/mime.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/mod.template
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/mysql_vhost.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/proxy.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/rrdtool.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/scgi.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/secdownload.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/simple_vhost.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/ssi.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/status.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/trigger_b4_dl.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/userdir.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/webdav.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/lighttpd.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/lighttpd.conf.defaultconf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/modules.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/vhosts.d
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/vhosts.d/vhosts.template
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/rrdtool-graph.sh
/usr/share/licenses/lighttpd
/usr/share/licenses/lighttpd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/lighttpd-angel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lighttpd.8.gz
/var/www/lighttpd/favicon.ico
/var/www/lighttpd/index.html
/var/www/lighttpd/light_button.png
/var/www/lighttpd/light_logo.png
/var/www/lighttpd/poweredby.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
