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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.

Docker #19 of 19 in Web Servers

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 commits over the last 12 months
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

LicenceBSD-3-Clause
PlatformsC, deb, Docker
Latest releaseNo tagged release
Stars0
Open issues0
DockerYes
Repositorygit.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.