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lighttpd (Docker image)

Built-from-source container image of the Lighttpd HTTP server

Available at ricardbejarano/lighttpd.

Features

Super tiny (glibc-based is ~3.41MB and musl-based is ~2.98MB)
Built from source
Built from scratch, see the Filesystem section below for an exhaustive list of the image's contents
Included lighttpd.conf optimized for secure and performant static file serving
Reduced attack surface (no bash, no UNIX tools, no package manager...)

Volumes

Mount your content in /etc/lighttpd/html.

Filesystem

The images' contents are:

`glibc`

Based on the glibc implementation of libc.

/
├── etc/
│   ├── group
│   ├── lighttpd/
│   │   ├── html/
│   │   │   └── index.html
│   │   └── lighttpd.conf
│   └── passwd
├── lib/
│   └── x86_64-linux-gnu/
│       ├── libc.so.6
│       ├── libdl.so.2
│       └── libnss_files.so.2
├── lib64/
│   └── ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
├── lighttpd
├── tmp/
│   └── .keep
└── usr/
    └── local/
        └── lib/
            ├── mod_dirlisting.so
            ├── mod_indexfile.so
            └── mod_staticfile.so

`musl`

Based on the musl implementation of libc.

/
├── etc/
│   ├── group
│   ├── lighttpd/
│   │   ├── html/
│   │   │   └── index.html
│   │   └── lighttpd.conf
│   └── passwd
├── lib/
│   ├── ld-musl-x86_64.so.1
│   ├── libc.musl-x86_64.so.1
│   └── libz.so.1.2.11
├── lighttpd
├── tmp/
│   └── .keep
└── usr/
    └── local/
        └── lib/
            ├── mod_dirlisting.so
            ├── mod_indexfile.so
            └── mod_staticfile.so