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lighttpd

brew install lighttpd v1.4.84 BSD-3-Clause

Small memory footprint, flexible web-server

197
30-day installs · #2629
278
90-day · #3663
1.5k
365-day · #3186

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Docroot is: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/www

The default port has been set in $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf to 8080 so that
lighttpd can run without sudo.
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