Comments on: Lighttpd Webserver setup with php5 and Mysql support

By: WolBot

WolBot — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:19:27 +0000

Merci

By: Jesse Donat

Jesse Donat — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:58:26 +0000

Great post! Got me running in minutes!

Two notes
- Some of your examples have directional quotes, and I had to replace them with standard quotes after I copied and pasted.
- I had to restart lightppd after making the changes

By: Kimse

Kimse — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:55:45 +0000

sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi-php

By: Kimse

Kimse — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:43:39 +0000

Here is an easier way:

sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi
sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

By: Robbie

Robbie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:36:38 +0000

THANK YOU!

In trying to get all my different things straightened out in Ubuntu, I have sifted through pages and pages of tutorials. This is the first one that I have seen in all those wasted hours that solves my problem perfectly! I followed these steps exactly and the result was happiness! Thank you so much!!

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:24:50 +0000

Thanks for demystifying this process for me!

Installing on Ubuntu Server 10.04 I encountered an issue with regard to the cgi module not being installed, whereby attempts to load the test.php file returned a 403 error.

Once I had loaded the cgi module with ‘lighty-enable-mod’ the errors disappeared.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:23:23 +0000

Merci beaucoup pour ce tutorial

By: skaramanger

skaramanger — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:25:46 +0000

I read your tutorial and the index and test pages worked flawlessly. However, My intent is to just view a couple of cgi pages locally and I am getting 404 pages. I am new to webservers. I get an error message when I try to enable fastcgi module:
Duplicate config variable in conditional 0 global: fastcgi.server
2010-01-31 17:17:30: (configfile.c.864) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 172 pos: 1 parser failed somehow near here: (EOL)

Line 172 is at the end of the file. I have tried a combination of en/disabling fastcgi and cgi modules. There is apparently something a miss here. Hope you have some suggestions for me.

Thanks

By: Sten

Sten — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:46:12 +0000

Thanks! Exactly what I needed.

By: LB

LB — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:34:07 +0000

Thank you for a great tutorial:-) Havent got around to PHP and MySql yet, but the placeholder-page came up on the right IP immediately. For at server newbie like myself, that was a great experience.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:15:38 +0000

why use apache when you got such a thing as lighttpd?
Great tut, THANKS!

By: messala

messala — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:00:11 +0000

God bless u!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:42:37 +0000

Great article, very easy to understand. Only problem I had was installing MySQL, using apt-get would get me a corrupted version and when I was building from source it’d give me an error on “make”….turned out it was because I didn’t have g++ installed.

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:10:20 +0000

hi, thanks,

a great howto. Except the ” marks should be straight ones and not fancy. And I too am having problems with the sequence;

fastcgi.server = ( “.php” => ((
“bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php5-cgi”,
“socket” => “/tmp/php.socket”
)))

I tried leaving it out, and at least it loads lighty.

Still, great help!

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 ?