Kevin Worthington

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For anyone who has downloaded my builds of lighttpd for windows in the past, or for anyone still running older versions of lighttpd for windows, whether mine or the WLMP Project’s:

The WLMP Project has released lighttpd 1.4.20 for windows.

I have not tried it myself, so please do not ask me for help or support. This is a big shout out and thank you to the WLMP Project for their continued efforts with packaging lighttpd for windows.

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So I finally decided to get in on the Twitter craze. As Anthony mentioned “Resistance is futile.”

You can follow my “Tweets” here. Also, I will conveniently announce my new software releases here - nginx for windows, lighttpd for windows, etc.

My latest 5 Twitter updates are also in the sidebar, for your your viewing pleasure.

Much like my previous release of nginx for Windows, nginx 0.6.30 for Windows was created on Windows XP Professional and has been tested on Windows XP and 2000. Fans of my lighttpd for Windows setup packages may also enjoy using nginx for Windows.

Windows Vista has NOT been tested, but may work on 32-bit versions.

I compiled nginx with Cygwin. If you have the cygwin1.dll on your system, you may have a conflict that won’t let you run nginx.

Once again, I created a nice, easy-to-use setup package to let anyone try it out. It should not be used in a production environment and I will probably not be able to help if you run into problems, but it works for me, and may help your development efforts in some way. Think of it as a proof or concept and use it at your own risk!

If you find it useful, please use the PayPal Donate link on the sidebar to give a few cents. Thanks.

Download nginx 0.6.30 for win32 here

Based on the success of lighttpd for Windows, I decided to see if I could build another lightweight Apache web server alternative on Windows: nginx. It was possible, so I created a nice, easy-to-use setup package to let anyone try it out. It should not be used in a production environment and I will probably not be able to help if you run into problems, but it works for me, and may help your development efforts in some way. Think of it as a proof or concept and use it at your own risk!

Things to know about this release:
This setup package was created on Windows XP Professional and has been tested on Windows XP and 2000.
Windows Vista has NOT been tested, but may work on 32-bit versions.
I compiled nginx with Cygwin. If you have the cygwin1.dll on your system, you may have a conflict that won’t let you run nginx.

Download nginx 0.6.29 for win32 here

Feedback, donations (if you find it useful), and comments are welcome.

I was just over at Adobe’s Photoshop Express test drive site, and I noticed that they are running the yet to be released lighttpd/1.5.0 :
[kevdev]$ curl -I https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?bypass&wf=testdrive
[kevdev]$ HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-ozzy-version: 1.1.7275 (built from production branch)
Content-Type: text/html
ETag: “408377048″
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:43:52 GMT
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:24:26 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.5.0
Content-Length: 11747
[kevdev]$

Even though I just released the pre-release RPMs (and SRPMs) a few hours ago, here are the proper 1.4.19 packages, based on 1.4.19 sources from www.lighttpd.net:

1.4.19 RPMs Download link

Official lighttpd site’s announcement, that I totally missed until a few moments ago.

Now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS versions 4 and 5:
lighttpd 1.4.19 Pre-release r2118 RPMs and SRPMs - Download Links.

As always, feedback is welcome.