Information about the package, lighttpd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lighttpd package is designed for, Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements.
Package Name:
lighttpd
Summary:
Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.47
Release:
1.el6
Size:
381 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the lighttpd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install lighttpd
This command will install lighttpd on the server.
yum remove lighttpd
This command will un-install lighttpd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lighttpd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove lighttpd
This command will un-install lighttpd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lighttpd when using the -y flag.
yum update lighttpd
This command will update lighttpd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lighttpd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update lighttpd
This command will update lighttpd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lighttpd when using the -y flag.
yum info lighttpd
This command will show you core information about the lighttpd package.
yum deplist lighttpd
This command will show you the dependencies for lighttpd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update lighttpd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on lighttpd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.