How To Install lighttpd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lighttpd.
Install lighttpd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lighttpd
Install lighttpd on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lighttpd
How To Uninstall lighttpd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lighttpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lighttpd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.