Comments on: Lighttpd Webserver setup with php5 and Mysql support

By: helloworld

helloworld — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:45:49 +0000

you can do

# lighty-enable-mod

and choose fastcgi instead of editing lighttpd.conf.

editing /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini is also not required anymore.

By: Kristjan Oddsson

Kristjan Oddsson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:09:19 +0000

Isn’t just easier to use XAMPP For Linux?. If I’m not mistaking, XAMPP sets up apache, php, mysql, phpmyadmin and something else too that I do not use

By: gimi

gimi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:35:29 +0000

Please note that lighttpd expects “normal” ascii quotes unlike “theese” used in the article.

And instead of appending the fastcgi stuff /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf, I’d try:

cd /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled
ln -s ../conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf
# In this file, change “php-cgi” to “php5-cgi”.

But great article. Provided me with a guideline to set up a LLMP setup within minutes. =)

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:34:14 +0000

Got up to modifying the lighttpd-conf but trying to reload the server i get:

158 pos: 19 invalid character in variable name
2008-09-27 20:31:27: (configfile.c.852) configfile parser failed at: (

its with your stanza at the end of the file! if I leave it out i cannot parse php files I get “No input file specified”. I googled this but IM on my third day of trying to fix it, I think its a bug

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:08:54 +0000

Thanks so much for this!

By: F4jr

F4jr — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:33:26 +0000

How to install version 1.4.19 using apt-get ?

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:36:34 +0000

Thanks mate, just got phpmyadmin working with it as well and all is good.

Great tutorials here.

By: qix

qix — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:25:48 +0000

Thanks, finally I got that php thing to work with lighttpd.

By: Declan

Declan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:02:18 +0000

Thanks!

Your tutorial helped my setup my new Dell server, I am experienced with Linux and the software mentioned above but I wanted to move away from Apache as it was being too resource heavy and lighttpd offered just this, it was a bit of a pain porting the stuff over but I am glad I did. Runs much better!