lighttpd.conf

server.modules = (
                  "mod_expire",
                  "mod_setenv",
                  "mod_deflate"
)


server.document-root = "/var/www/"

server.port = 80
server.tag = ""

server.username = "www"
server.groupname = "www"

# https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/mimetype_assigndetails
mimetype.use-xattr = "disable"

# based on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types
# with some additional text based file formats: .text,.md,.log
mimetype.assign  = (
  ".aac" => "audio/aac",
  ".abw" => "application/x-abiword",
  ".arc" => "application/x-freearc",
  ".avif" => "image/avif",
  ".avi" => "video/x-msvideo",
  ".azw" => "application/vnd.amazon.ebook",
  ".bin" => "application/octet-stream",
  ".bmp" => "image/bmp",
  ".bz" => "application/x-bzip",
  ".bz2" => "application/x-bzip2",
  ".cda" => "application/x-cdf",
  ".csh" => "application/x-csh",
  ".css" => "text/css",
  ".csv" => "text/csv",
  ".doc" => "application/msword",
  ".docx" => "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
  ".eot" => "application/vnd.ms-fontobject",
  ".epub" => "application/epub+zip",
  ".gz" => "application/gzip",
  ".gif" => "image/gif",
  ".htm" => "text/html",
  ".html" => "text/html",
  ".ico" => "image/vnd.microsoft.icon",
  ".ics" => "text/calendar",
  ".jar" => "application/java-archive",
  ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
  ".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
  ".js" => "text/javascript",
  ".json" => "application/json",
  ".jsonld" => "application/ld+json",
  ".mid" => "audio/midi",
  ".midi" => "audio/midi",
  ".mjs" => "text/javascript",
  ".mp3" => "audio/mpeg",
  ".mp4" => "video/mp4",
  ".mpeg" => "video/mpeg",
  ".mpkg" => "application/vnd.apple.installer+xml",
  ".odp" => "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation",
  ".ods" => "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet",
  ".odt" => "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text",
  ".oga" => "audio/ogg",
  ".ogv" => "video/ogg",
  ".ogx" => "application/ogg",
  ".opus" => "audio/opus",
  ".otf" => "font/otf",
  ".png" => "image/png",
  ".pdf" => "application/pdf",
  ".php" => "application/x-httpd-php",
  ".ppt" => "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
  ".pptx" => "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation",
  ".rar" => "application/vnd.rar",
  ".rtf" => "application/rtf",
  ".sh" => "application/x-sh",
  ".svg" => "image/svg+xml",
  ".swf" => "application/x-shockwave-flash",
  ".tar" => "application/x-tar",
  ".tif" => "image/tiff",
  ".tiff" => "image/tiff",
  ".ts" => "video/mp2t",
  ".ttf" => "font/ttf",
  ".txt" => "text/plain",
  ".vsd" => "application/vnd.visio",
  ".wav" => "audio/wav",
  ".weba" => "audio/webm",
  ".webm" => "video/webm",
  ".webp" => "image/webp",
  ".woff" => "font/woff",
  ".woff2" => "font/woff2",
  ".xhtml" => "application/xhtml+xml",
  ".xls" => "application/vnd.ms-excel",
  ".xlsx" => "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet",
  ".xml" => "application/xml",
  ".xul" => "application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml",
  ".zip" => "application/zip",
  ".7z" => "application/x-7z-compressed",
  ".xsl" => "application/xml",
  # additional text based formats
  ".log" => "text/plain",
  ".text" => "text/plain",
  ".md" => "text/markdown",
  # make the default mime type application/octet-stream.
  "" => "application/octet-stream",
)

static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".conf", ".auth", "~", ".inc" )
index-file.names = ( "index.html" )
# only set cache control headers for hashed filenames
# regex matches filenames like `index.561ecd9f.css`
$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.(?:[a-fA-F0-9]{8,})\." {
    expire.url = ( "" => "access 2 weeks" )
    setenv.add-response-header += (
      "Cache-Control" => "public,must-revalidate"
    )
}

# see https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/1/wiki/Docs_ModDeflate
deflate.mimetypes = ("text/html", "text/plain", "text/css", "text/javascript", "text/xml")
deflate.allowed-encodings = ( "br", "gzip", "deflate" ) # "bzip2" and "zstd" also supported - only selected default three to prevent too much storage overhead in cache
deflate.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"