Update: 5 Sep 2008. The code was considerably cleaned up by Lucas Aerbeydt.

lighttpd is a web server that has high performance and a small memory footprint. On some of my servers I'm really low on both CPU and free memory. The web server I used to use, Apache, is quite large so I thought I test out lighttpd.

On top of the web server I run Drupal as my content manager and use Drupal's standard Apache conditional rewrite rules to make the two inter work well.

lighttpd can do rewrites but lacks the conditional test in its module, mod_rewrite.