diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/dracut-example-lighttpd_0.1.bb b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/dracut-example-lighttpd_0.1.bb
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+++ b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/dracut-example-lighttpd_0.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2025
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+require recipes-initramfs/dracut-module/dracut-module.inc
+
+DEBIAN_DEPENDS:append = ",lighttpd"
+SRC_URI += "file://install.sh \
+            file://lighttpd.conf \
+            file://lighttpd.service \
+            file://sysuser-lighttpd.conf \
+            "
+DRACUT_REQUIRED_BINARIES = "lighttpd"
+DRACUT_MODULE_DEPENDENCIES = "systemd-network-management"
+
+do_install[cleandirs] += "${D}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/"
+do_install:append() {
+        install -m 666 ${WORKDIR}/lighttpd.conf ${DRACUT_MODULE_PATH}
+        install -m 666 ${WORKDIR}/lighttpd.service ${DRACUT_MODULE_PATH}
+        install -m 666 ${WORKDIR}/sysuser-lighttpd.conf ${D}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/lighttpd.conf
+}
+
diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/install.sh b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/install.sh
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+++ b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+install() {
+        inst_binary /usr/sbin/lighttpd
+        inst_binary /usr/sbin/lighttpd-angel
+        inst_binary /usr/sbin/lighttpd-disable-mod
+        inst_binary /usr/sbin/lighttpd-enable-mod
+        inst_multiple -o /usr/lib/lighttpd/*.so
+        inst_multiple -o /usr/share/lighttpd/*
+        inst_simple "${moddir}/lighttpd.service" "$systemdsystemunitdir/lighttpd.service"
+        mkdir -p -m 0700 "$initdir/etc/lighttpd/"
+        mkdir -p -m 0700 "$initdir/var/cache/lighttpd/compress"
+        mkdir -p -m 0700 "$initdir/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads"
+        mkdir -p -m 0700 "$initdir/var/log/lighttpd/"
+        mkdir -p -m 0755 "$initdir/var/www/html"
+        /usr/bin/install -m 0644 /usr/share/lighttpd/index.html "$initdir/var/www/html/index.html"
+        touch "$moddir"/error.log
+        /usr/bin/install -m 0644 "$moddir"/error.log "$initdir/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
+        chown -R www-data:www-data "$initdir/var/log/lighttpd/"
+        inst_simple "${moddir}/lighttpd.conf" /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+        inst_sysusers lighttpd.conf
+        systemctl -q --root "$initdir" enable lighttpd
+}
diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/lighttpd.conf b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/lighttpd.conf
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+++ b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/lighttpd.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+server.modules = (
+	"mod_indexfile",
+	"mod_access",
+	"mod_alias",
+ 	"mod_redirect",
+)
+
+server.document-root        = "/var/www/html"
+server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
+server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
+server.pid-file             = "/run/lighttpd.pid"
+server.username             = "www-data"
+server.groupname            = "www-data"
+server.port                 = 80
+
+# features
+#https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Server_feature-flagsDetails
+server.feature-flags       += ("server.h2proto" => "enable")
+server.feature-flags       += ("server.h2c"     => "enable")
+server.feature-flags       += ("server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" => 5)
+#server.feature-flags       += ("server.graceful-restart-bg" => "enable")
+
+# strict parsing and normalization of URL for consistency and security
+# https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Server_http-parseoptsDetails
+# (might need to explicitly set "url-path-2f-decode" = "disable"
+#  if a specific application is encoding URLs inside url-path)
+server.http-parseopts = (
+  "header-strict"           => "enable",# default
+  "host-strict"             => "enable",# default
+  "host-normalize"          => "enable",# default
+  "url-normalize-unreserved"=> "enable",# recommended highly
+  "url-normalize-required"  => "enable",# recommended
+  "url-ctrls-reject"        => "enable",# recommended
+  "url-path-2f-decode"      => "enable",# recommended highly (unless breaks app)
+ #"url-path-2f-reject"      => "enable",
+  "url-path-dotseg-remove"  => "enable",# recommended highly (unless breaks app)
+ #"url-path-dotseg-reject"  => "enable",
+ #"url-query-20-plus"       => "enable",# consistency in query string
+)
+
+index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html" )
+url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
+static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
+
+# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
+include "/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/*.conf"
+
+#server.compat-module-load   = "disable"
+server.modules += (
+	"mod_dirlisting",
+	"mod_staticfile",
+)
diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/lighttpd.service b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/lighttpd.service
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+++ b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/lighttpd.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=Lighttpd Daemon
+DefaultDependencies=no
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+PIDFile=/run/lighttpd.pid
+ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
+Restart=on-failure
+[Install]
+WantedBy=sysinit.target
diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/sysuser-lighttpd.conf b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/sysuser-lighttpd.conf
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+++ b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/dracut-example-lighttpd/files/sysuser-lighttpd.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+g www-data - -
+u www-data - - /var/www /usr/sbin/nologin
+
diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/images/isar-dracut.bb b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/images/isar-dracut.bb
index 226fdeaa..95739b12 100644
--- a/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/images/isar-dracut.bb
+++ b/meta-isar/recipes-initramfs/images/isar-dracut.bb
@@ -14,4 +14,7 @@ INITRAMFS_PREINSTALL += " \
 
 # Recipes that should be installed into the initramfs build rootfs.
 INITRAMFS_INSTALL += " \
+    dracut-example-lighttpd \
     "
+
+DRACUT_EXTRA_MODULES += "example-lighttpd"
