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authorArno Töll <arno@debian.org>2012-11-21 23:03:45 +0100
committerArno Töll <arno@debian.org>2012-11-21 23:03:45 +0100
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@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ progress report
:Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $
:abstract:
- This document tries to track the requested features and
+ This document tries to track the requested features and
the release when they have been implemented.
-
+
.. meta::
:keywords: lighttpd, features
-
+
.. contents:: Table of Contents
Description
@@ -29,17 +29,17 @@ It is used to see what is still missing and what is already done. ::
> considering installing and testing the latest version. From a
> quick glance, it seems to support most/all of the features of
> Premium thttpd and Zeus.
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+
If you think it compares to Zeus, then you've obviously never used Zeus.
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+
lighttpd is currently the only non-blocking open source web server to
support FastCGI responders and that's worthwhile.
-
+
The documentation is lacking. Comments in the configuration file do not
make up for a complete manual.
-
+
Constantly improving. ::
-
+
The configuration syntax is overly complex, like Apache. There is no .htaccess
support.
@@ -50,34 +50,34 @@ Constantly improving. ::
SSL.
Works since 1.3.0. ::
-
+
There is no SSI support. Zeus has full recursive SSI support. Output from
a FastCGI program can get run through the SSI interpreter. SSI can also do
virtual includes recursively.
-
+
SSI works since 1.2.4. ::
-
+
Request logging is not configurable. Zeus supports fully configurable
access logging, plus a binary version of CLF that save space.
-
+
1.2.6 adds Apache-like logfile config. ::
-
+
Access control only allows authentication via username and password. There
is no way to allow or deny based in IP address.
-
+
planed for 1.3.x ::
-
+
The request rewriting appears to only allow regex substitutions. Zeus has a
simple, yet powerful, request rewrite language.
-
-
+
+
There is no support for FastCGI authorizers. These are very useful for high
traffic sites that require complex authentication schemes or that store
authorization information in a central database.
-
+
since 1.1.9. ::
-
+
There is no bandwidth throttling support. Zeus does bandwidth throttling
correctly (i.e. unlike past versions of thttpd) and can throttle on a
per-subserver (thttpd-style virtual hosts) basis.
@@ -88,29 +88,29 @@ since 1.3.8. ::
modification of web server behavior. While it isn't strictly necessary for
an open source web server, it nice to have a documented, consistent API,
rather than having to manually patch the server.
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+
If someone requests it it might be implemented. ::
-
+
There is no web based interface. Zeus has a complete web based interface
for everything, including a powerful feature of configuring multiple virtual
servers at once.
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+
That is something that should be a special feature of Zeus. :) ::
-
+
There is no support for mapping certain URLs to specific filesystem paths.
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+
since 1.2.6 ::
-
+
There is no referring checking. This is incredibly important to prevent
hotlinking of bandwidth intensive media types (images, movies, etc.).
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+
we have something better: mod_secdownload. And if someone wants referer
checking we have a condition in the config for it since 1.2.9 ::
-
+
Zeus has a lot of features that lighttpd doesn't have, but I only mentioned
the ones I care about and use.
-
- --
+
+ --
David Phillips <david@acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/