How To Install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8
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.
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lighttpd on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the lighttpd
package we can use the following command:
lighttpd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.