the fast leight weight, secure and (used to be easy to configure) webserver lighttpd is currently not working under Fedora / RedHat / CentOS (7?) 8 because lighttpd (currently) can not bind at ipv4 while ipv6 is active (see).

https://www.lighttpd.net/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069029

the issue was reported: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/3004

hostnamectl 
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8
            Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64

systemctl start lighttpd.service

lighttpd -v
lighttpd/1.4.54 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver

# list all ports in use
netstat -tulnp

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name    
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5355            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1615/systemd-resolv 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1196/sshd           
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5432          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1210/postmaster     
tcp6       0      0 :::5355                 :::*                    LISTEN      1615/systemd-resolv 
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      3738/lighttpd       
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      3437/java           
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      1196/sshd           
tcp6       0      0 ::1:5432                :::*                    LISTEN      1210/postmaster     
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:8005          :::*                    LISTEN      3437/java           
tcp6       0      0 :::8009                 :::*                    LISTEN      3437/java           
udp        0      0 127.0.0.53:53           0.0.0.0:*                           1615/systemd-resolv 
udp        0      0 95.216.206.211:68       0.0.0.0:*                           1185/NetworkManager 
udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:323           0.0.0.0:*                           1158/chronyd        
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5355            0.0.0.0:*                           1615/systemd-resolv 
udp6       0      0 ::1:323                 :::*                                1158/chronyd        
udp6       0      0 :::5355                 :::*                                1615/systemd-resolv 

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