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nginx , lighttpd or iis for file hosting?

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http://serverfault.com – i have a vps 4gb ram , 500gb ssd hard disck. i want use this vps for movie download site 700 or 1gb files direct link. whats Your best solution for this work ? linux and nginx/lighttpd or windows and IIS? if you recommend IIS , Which one windows version better fo my vps 4gb ram ? 2003 , 2008 or 2012 ? (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 12/03/2012 – Made popular on 12/03/2012

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Hello all!

Im in the process of installing lighttpd on my server as i need it for streaming possibilities.

I have sucessfully installed lighttpd but having a hard time making it work properly. It loads html files, but no php files.

I use arm linux lighttpd download more than 2G file will respond to the Content-Length: -0. But in the x86 lighttpd everything is normal. Therefore, where the difference between the lighttpd arm and x86?

thanks all.

I need help setting up virtual hosting in lighttpd. i have the lighttpd default webpage in /var/www/lighttpd dir and i have created other dirs for my other websites /var/www/web1.com/public_html and /var/www/web2.com/public_html

I have tried to follow the documentation page on lighttpd websites and other guides online but haven't been successful.

I'm working on a WordPress site that's served by two lighttpd backends behind an F5 load balancer.

Previously, the site was served by a single lighttpd server behind a nginx reverse proxy, and everything worked fine.

Now, sometimes when sending POST info from the WordPress admin (for instance, when editing general options or editing navigation menus) the site won't reply anything at all.

I'm setting up a new server for my personal stuff. On the old box I've used lighttpd for almost two years now. I've read a bit about it and most people tend to switch to nginx since it's development is much more active.

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I am having a bit of problem of configuring Nginx in place of Apache, so that it served Mumble Django to clients. I have vhosts configs for both Apache and Lighttpd - let me put them here side by side, to save you a click :) . Apache2 utilized WSGI to run Django Python as CGI.

I am running nginx on Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) as a windows service. I am using Windows Service Wrapper for that. (Actually, I have followed this tutorial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgServeNginxWindows.)

The service is running ok. However, the server does not process the signals (e.g. stop / reload).

This means if I stop the service, nginx is not stopped.

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