Welcome to the Lighty2Go Project!

Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Tom

Lighty2Go is your personal Lighty, MySQL & PHP (LiMP) stack on a stick. Take it with you on your USB thumdrive and have some fun.

For Lighty2Go to exist and to have gotten to where it is there are many THANKS I have to give out first.

First and foremost:
Big Thanks to Jan Kneschke for writing LightTPD and giving us all an excellent, new, fun, webserver app to play with.

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The next one up for thanks is:
Kevin Worthington, Kevin is the guy that back in 2005 started porting LightTPD to windows. Thanks Kevin for the effort put into Lighty for windows and all the great info you have provided!

And now the most current group that gets thanks:
Are the good folks over at the WLMP Project. They have an excellent Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP all-in-one package for windows.

WLMP Project
The object of WLMP Project is to create a LightTPD-based, secure and fast webserver package that runs under Windows platform, with MySQL database-server and PHP support.


So I used bits and parts from all of these projects to piece together Lighty2Go. There is absolutely nothing wrong or missing from any of these other packages or projects, and you may not even see a reason for LiMP on a stick, or be wondering why I did this. I guess it’s because I happen to really like portable apps and this was kind of a proof of concept type thing.

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4 Responses to “Welcome to the Lighty2Go Project!”

  1. Kevin Worthington Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 , on August 28th, 2007 at 10:02 pm Said:

    Good project idea and thanks for the shout out!
    Best regards,
    Kevin

  2. Tom Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 , on August 28th, 2007 at 10:49 pm Said:

    Thanks Kevin
    And no problem for the shout out – had to give props to the people that gave my project it’s ‘legs’.

    –Tom

  3. Lighty2K Windows 2000 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.9.9 , on September 6th, 2007 at 5:16 am Said:

    Thank you for releasing Lighty2Go.
    The 2.5MB consumed by LightTPD.exe is much better than the 40+MB that 2 instances of Apache.exe eat up.
    Unfortunately, when running “Check-Servers.bat” “Stop-Both-Servers.bat” “Stop-Lighty.bat” “Stop-MySQL.bat” under Win2K, you will get the following message: “ERROR: The Target system must be running Windows XP or above.” Then you have to manually stop Lighty + MySQL via the taskmanager.
    It would also be nice if the next version includes XCache or eAccelerator.
    And don’t forget to add Lighty2Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs

  4. Tom Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 , on September 6th, 2007 at 10:45 am Said:

    Lighty2K —
    I can see if I can use different task monitor and task kill commands that will be more compatible with Win2K.
    Thanks for stopping by and trying Lighty2Go.
    Oh and as for XCache or eAccelerator yeah I hope to be building them in to the newer versions.
    First step was was purely “Proof of Concept” could a LiMP stack be made portable.
    Lighty2Go works – now its time to add, test, and try more features.

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