Most advisable lightweight Web server

[dcaccount]

Hello,

I would like to install a very lightweight PHP Webserver for my Pi3.

What is your advise, what one shall I install?

Thanks for helping,
daniele

[piglet]

I use lighttpd. As the name suggests, it's pretty lightweight and works well on my pi.

Just google: "lighttpd php on raspberry pi"

[dcaccount]

I use lighttpd. As the name suggests, it's pretty lightweight and works well on my pi.

Just google: "lighttpd php on raspberry pi"

Thanks!

[DougieLawson]

I use lighttpd. As the name suggests, it's pretty lightweight and works well on my pi.

Just google: "lighttpd php on raspberry pi"

I was going to say NGinx. Same thing Google "NGinx php raspberry pi". I've found getting CGI programs to run with lightty is a pain. I've got a mix of Apache2, Lighttpd and NGinx across my 14 raspberries.

[dcaccount]

I use lighttpd. As the name suggests, it's pretty lightweight and works well on my pi.

Just google: "lighttpd php on raspberry pi"

I was going to say NGinx. Same thing Google "NGinx php raspberry pi". I've found getting CGI programs to run with lightty is a pain. I've got a mix of Apache2, Lighttpd and NGinx across my 14 raspberries.

Thanks for advising.
One question, does Lighttpd allow “reverse proxy” or shall I user another web server?

Thanks,
Daniele

[rpdom]

Nginx is good for reverse proxy. I don't thing lighttpd can do that.

[DougieLawson]

Nginx is good for reverse proxy. I don't thing lighttpd can do that.

I've never tried a reverse proxy with Lightty (I always find Lightty very hard to configure). I know it works with Apache2 and NGinx.

[gkreidl]

Nginx is good for reverse proxy. I don't thing lighttpd can do that.

Of course it can: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1 ... s_ModProxy

I'm using it for almost a decade now.

[piglet]

I've found getting CGI programs to run with lightty is a pain. I've got a mix of Apache2, Lighttpd and NGinx across my 14 raspberries.

Hmm - I didn't have any problems setting up for Perl. I did want to run the scripts along a http://domain/name path rather than http://domain/cgi-bin/name path and couldn't see how to do it...but other than that I didn't have any problems on the machine side of the keyboard.