How To Install lighttpd on Fedora 34
lighttpd is Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lighttpd.
Install lighttpd on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lighttpd
Install lighttpd on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the lighttpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lighttpd
lighttpd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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/debug.conf
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/deflate.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/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/ac5821c08b7083bfc45a33f6809396ab19cdfb
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/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_ajp13.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_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/debug.conf
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd/config/conf.d/deflate.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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.