LigHTTPd is one of the fastest web servers around.  If you are running it chances are that you will need to enable SSL.  Here are the instructions on how to install OpenSSL in LigHTTPd.

Open Terminal and type;

sudo apt-get install openssl

lighttpd supports SSLv2 and SSLv3 if it is compiled against openssl.

To enable SSL for your entire server you have to provide a valid certificate and have to enable the SSL engine:

ssl.engine = "enable"
ssl.pemfile = "/path/to/server.pem"

The HTTPS protocol does not allow you to use name-based virtual hosting with SSL. If you want to run multiple SSL servers with one lighttpd instance you must use IP-based virtual hosting:

$SERVER["socket"] == "10.10.10.1:443" {
ssl.engine = "enable"
ssl.pemfile = "www.example.org.pem"
server.name = "www.example.org"

server.document-root = "/www/servers/www.example.org/pages/"
}

If you have a .crt and a .key file, cat them together into a single PEM file:

$ cat host.key host.crt > host.pem

Self-Signed Certificates
A self-signed SSL certificate can be generated using the following commands:

openssl req -new -x509
-keyout server.pem -out server.pem
-days 365 -nodes

Limit Bandwidth Usage in Lighttpd

Starting with 1.3.8, lighttpd supports limiting the bandwidth for a single connection or config context like a virtual host or a URL.

Options

connection.kbytes-per-second:

limit the throughput for each single connection to the given limit in kbyte/s

default: 0 (no limit)

server.kbytes-per-second:

limit the throughput for all connections to the given limit in kbyte/s

if you want to specify a limit for a special virtual server use:

$HTTP["host"] == "www.example.com" {
server.kbytes-per-second = 128
}

which will override the default for this host.

default: 0 (no limit)

Tags | General, Linux, Servers, Ubuntu, Web 2.0