LDAP authentication for lighttpd

Like a lot of web server, lighttpd can directly protect the access at certain pages or full folders by a password. This password protection is independent of web application that is protected like this. It's append before any access to the web pages and therefore of the application. The ...

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PHP activation for lighttpd

We will see how to let lighttpd execute PHP scripts and display their results instead of their content.

FastCGI configuration of PHP5

To execute PHP scripts, lighttpd can use the standardised interface CGI that is used by web servers. It is an interface that allow easily the exchange between a ...

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Installation of a CAcert certificate for lighttpd

Here we will see how to set up a X.509 certificate signed by CAcert on lighttpd web server

TLS/SSL

[[!wikipedia Transport_Layer_Security]] best known as TLS/SSL is a cryptographic protocol use on Internet to encrypt communications. It using both asymmetric encryption for key exchange and symmetric encryption for ...

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