Editing Lighttpd (section)

==Application support==
lighttpd supports the [[FastCGI]], [[Simple Common Gateway Interface|SCGI]] and [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] interfaces to external programs, allowing web applications written in any programming language to be used with the server.  As a particularly popular language, [[PHP]] performance has received special attention. Lighttpd's FastCGI can be configured to support PHP with [[PHP accelerator|opcode caches]] (like [[Alternative PHP Cache|APC]]) properly and efficiently. Additionally, it has received attention from its popularity within the [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Perl]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] and [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] communities. Lighttpd also supports WebDNA, the resilient [[in-memory database]] system designed to build database-driven websites. It is a popular web server for the [[Catalyst (software)|Catalyst]] and [[Ruby on Rails]] web frameworks. Lighttpd does not support [[Internet Server Application Programming Interface|ISAPI]].