Lighttpd+PHP
Revision 11 as of 2010-01-26 22:55:25
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This is a how-to to on installing and setting up lighttpd and php on dapper. Lighttpd or "lighty" is a webserver with a very low use of resources.
required abilities:
- open a terminal
Install the packages we need: (this may not be all, but these two will automatically download the rest as dependencies)
sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi
and enable the fastcgi module with
sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi
and reload the lighttpd daemon
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload
To test the a php script you can put a phpinfo script http://php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php named index.php into /var/www and check it out at http://localhost/index.php