Relationship between uhttpd and lighttpd?

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I was trying to figure out how the webserver in LuCI works, and realized that there are two (or maybe three) web servers mentioned in the OpenWrt documentation. They are:

  • uhttpd
  • lighttpd
  • (maybe) Busybox

I believe that uhttpd is the default web server for the LuCI GUI in 19.07. But I see that lightttpd (and a zillion of its packages) are also installed by default in 19.07. Update: That last sentence is wrong, wrong, wrong. lighttpd is not installed...

How can I tell which is running? What's their relationship? Is lighttpd ever required? Thanks.

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Correct, uhttpd is the default server and lighttpd is not required. Optionally, uhttpd can be substituted with any CGI-capable server (apache, lighttpd) or with nginx + a fastCGI wrapper

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Not in a standard 19.07.1 image for Fritzbox 4040.
No lighttpd packaged at all installed in this image.

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Thank you for catching this. You are correct (I mis-read the output of opkg list light* ) I updated the OP.

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BusyBox is never used. uhttpd is default. lighttpd is used on TurrisOS by default.

There’s also a luci-nginx package which configured nginx for use with LuCI.

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