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docker-lighttpd

lighttpd web server with default config optimized for high traffic frontend website

lighttpd Docker Image

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments
docker-lighttpd is a lighttpd docker image designed to use as base image for building frontend/static web app docker image (e.g. React)

Base Image

Use docker-lighttpd as a base image (FROM) and copy your web artifacts to /var/www/html
Optimized for serving high traffic frontend/static web app

Useful Info

Paths

/var/www/html - Document root
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf - Default configuration file
/etc/lighttpd/mime-types.conf - MIME types definition derived from NGINX /etc/nginx/mime.types

Feel free to replace or modify these config files if required!

Default Config (lighttpd.conf)

Run as lighttpd user
Listen on port 80
No SSL/HTTPS (designed to run behind load balancer or reverse proxy server)
No log file writing
Except HTML files, the Cache-Control header instruct client to cache all static files for 30 days

Examples

Dockerize React App (Multi-Stage Build)

FROM node:14 AS builder

COPY package.json \
     package-lock.json \
     /usr/web/

WORKDIR /usr/web/
RUN npm ci

COPY public/ /usr/web/public/
COPY src/ /usr/web/src/
RUN npm run build

FROM rtsp/lighttpd
COPY --from=builder /usr/web/build/ /var/www/html/

Directly use as Web Server (Volume mount)

docker run -d \
  --name your-webapp \
  -v /webapp/dir:/var/www/html:ro \
  -p 8080:80 \
  rtsp/lighttpd

Mount /webapp/dir as your web app document root
Publish website to port 8080 of Docker host machine.
Enter http://localhost:8080

lighttpd Docker Image

Base Image

Useful Info

Paths

Default Config (lighttpd.conf)

Examples

Dockerize React App (Multi-Stage Build)

Directly use as Web Server (Volume mount)

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