How to build an L2MP server on Ubuntu

L2MP (Linux + Lighttpd + MySQL + PHP) uses lightweight lighttpd as a Web server. Although the name is not as loud as Apache, many websites are built using it, lighttpd is known for its security, speed, and low memory consumption. It is also specially optimized for large-scale distributed connection environments and is widely used on websites based on AJAX or RubyonRails applications. Introduction to Zhiqiang: lighttpd is a lightweight Lighttpd used by Germans to open L2MP (Linux + lighttpd + MySQL + PHP) as a Web server. Although the name is not as loud as Apache, however, many websites are built with it. lighttpd is well known for its security, speed, and low memory consumption. It has also been specially optimized for large-scale distributed connection environments, popular websites based on AJAX or Ruby on Rails Applications.

Reference Zhiqiang: lighttpd is an open-source software developed by Germans. Its fundamental goal is to provide a high-performance website, secure, fast, compatible, and flexible Web Server environment. It features low memory overhead, low CPU usage, good performance, and rich modules. Lighttpd is one of the many lightweight OpenSource Web servers. It supports FastCGI, CGI, Auth, output compress, URL rewriting, Alias, and other important functions, apache is popular because of its rich functions. Many functions are implemented in lighttpd, which is very important to Apache users, because the migration to lighttpd must face these problems.

Next we will introduce how to quickly build an L2MP Web server using lighttpd on Ubuntu.

1. Install Lighttpd + MySQL + PHP5

Sudo apt-get install lighttpd mysql-server php5-cgi phpmyadmin