Lighttpd
Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Jul 2026.
At a glance
Lighttpd quick facts
- Health score
- 20/100 STALE
- Stars
- 0
- Last commit
- 4 months ago (Jul 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Lighttpd scores 20/100, #19 of 19 in Web Servers: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 0 stars add 0.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the git.lighttpd.net API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 0.0 / 20
0 stars on git.lighttpd.net (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- 4 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , just below HAProxy (#18) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | C, deb, Docker |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 0 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4 ↗ |
Lighttpd vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Lighttpd (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddy | 100 | 79k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Traefik | 99 | 65k | MIT | today |
| NGINX | 98 | 32k | BSD-2-Clause | yesterday |
| Static Web Server | 88 | 2.4k | Apache-2.0 | 12 days ago |
| UUSEC WAF | 74 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| Lighttpd (this tool) | 20 | 0 | BSD-3-Clause | 4 months ago |
Lighttpd: common questions
Is Lighttpd still maintained?
Lighttpd had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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