About lighttpd:

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe
LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it
is designed and optimized for high performance environments.   With a
small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective
management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI,
Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the
perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems.
And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license. 

This tutorial is tested on CentOS 3.3, but it will works with other distributions (like fedora, redhat, centos)

1. Download lighttpd (for gcc < 2.4 use 1.4.x version)

wget http://www.lighttpd.net/assets/2007/1/29/lighttpd-1.4.13.tar.gz

 2. Decompress and install

tar -xzvf lighttpd-1.4.13.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.13
./configure && make && make install
sed -e 's/FOO/lighttpd/g' doc/rc.lighttpd > /etc/init.d/lighttpd
chmod a+rx /etc/init.d/lighttpd
cp -p doc/sysconfig.lighttpd /etc/sysconfig/lighttpd
install -Dp ./doc/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

 3. Download and install php as a cgi module

wget http://cz.php.net/get/php-5.2.1.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
tar -xjvf php-5.2.1.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.1
make clean
./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-discard-path --enable-force-redirect
make && make install

 4. Now edit this files

[/usr/local/lib/php.ini]
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

[/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf]
server.modules = (
                   "mod_fastcgi",
                 )

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => ((
                     "bin-path" => "/path/to/php-cgi",
                     "socket" => "/tmp/php.socket"
                 )))
 

 5. create dirs pages and logs

cd /
mkdir www
cd www

mkdir pages
mkdir logs
chmod 777 logs

 You are done, now start lighttpd with command lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.cond or /etc/init.d/lighttpd

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