Lightttpd - PHP working

For those interested , I installed Lighttpd an PHP (5.3 no less) on the Aspire 1.

Preliminary : this is not for the fainthearted , a certain degree of Linux adminstration knowledge will help.

1. Installation Lighttpd

Prerequisites :

yum install gcc
yum install pcre-devel
yum install zlib-devel
yum install bzip2-devel
yum install make

Manual followed : http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Tuto ... ttpdAndPHP

Grab the latest tarball for lighttpd (in my case 1.4.19)

Make sure you get the setting in the configuration file OK. I copied the default conf file from the doc directory to a directory conf and edited the file. Basically, it worked with the default settings.

If all goes well you should be able to start the webserver with
lighttpd -f </path/to/config/file>

If you add -t to the command , a syntax check will be performed.

Check with ps -ef to see whether it runs ok and check whether something shows up if you browse to http://localhost. You might want to create a small html page for this.

2. Installation PHP

Prerequisites:

yum install libxml2-devel

Specifically for PHP5.3 , fastcgi is enabled by default , so no need to configure with '--enable-fast-cgi'.

./configure
make
make test
su -
make install

By default the php-cgi executable resides in /usr/local/bin , which is what you can also find in the configuration file (lighttpd.conf in my case). You uncomment the fast-cgi settings and tweak them to resemble the ones found on this page : http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.un ... tpd-14.php

Make sure you have a valid index.php file ( <?php echo phpinfo(); ?> in the document root.

Restart the server ( pkill lighttpd , lighttpd -f </path/to/conf/file> ) enter http://localhost/index.php and KABOOM , PHP enabled.

If you have further questions, I'll try to help.