While Apache is the most popular open source web server, it's not the only open source web server. This chapter will review the advantages and disadvantages of serving pages with the most popular alternative, lighttpd. It will detail how to get Drupal up and running with lighttpd, and explore configuration options for improving performance. It will also look at using lighttpd to compliment Apache in an infrastructure, instead of replacing it. Later, the chapter will take a brief look at running Drupal on a newer and lesser known alternative, Nginx. Finally, it will also briefly explore WAMP based Drupal installs, tuning IIS on Windows.
- Lighttpd
- Feature Comparison
- Benchmarks
- Limitations
- Configuration
- Other Alternatives
- Nginx
- IIS (WAMP versus LAMP)
