Install lighttpd+PHP5 on CentOS

OscarS · #1 04-25-2011, 07:05 PM

Hi everybody this is my first tutorial I'm not an expert but hope this will be helpful for someone.

This tutorial was tested on a Xen VPS 512RAM with CentOS 5.6 64bits

Well less chat and more guide.

First we need to add working repositores.

Add repo if you are 32bits

Code:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Add repo if you are 64bits

Code:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Install lighttpd

Code:

yum install lighttpd

Once lighttpd is installed you will need complements for php (we will use PHP5)

Install PHP

Code:

yum install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli

Now we gonna set up our lighttpd configuration

Change settings of lighttpd

Code:

nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

This gonna open the file configuration of lighttpd we gonna disable IPv6 if we are using IPv4 (if not skip this)

Search "server.use-ipv6 = “enable”" and change for "disable"

Code:

server.use-ipv6 = "disable"

Now we gonna open the modules configuration file

Change settings of modules

Code:

nano /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf

Search

Quote:

server.modules = (
“mod_access”,
# “mod_alias”,
# “mod_auth”,
# “mod_evasive”,
# “mod_redirect”,
# “mod_rewrite”,
# “mod_setenv”,
# “mod_usertrack”,
)

and change for

Code:

server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_auth",
"mod_evasive",
"mod_redirect",
"mod_rewrite",
"mod_setenv",
"mod_usertrack",
)

Note: in this step we change # in modules to active it.

now scroll down and Search

Code:

##
## FastCGI (mod_fastcgi)
##
#include “conf.d/fastcgi.conf”

and change for

Code:

##
## FastCGI (mod_fastcgi)
##
include "conf.d/fastcgi.conf"
 
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
( "localhost" =>
(
"socket" => "/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi"
)
)
)

Now everything its ok, I recommend to you to put an index.html in var/www/lighttpd because by default lighttpd give you an 404 error (chrome show me this like broken link that was my first fail)

This tutorial is mine translate from spanish to english.

swisscloud · #2 05-28-2011, 07:23 AM

Thanks for sharing. You may also want to add some php modules like mysql, curl, etc ...

zFastDan · #3 06-10-2011, 07:30 AM

Great tutorial.

For some reason I had to put my index.html file in /srv/www/lighttpd

But apart from that, worked on a CentOS 5 32bit VPS!

Regards,
Daniel

serena85 · #4 06-10-2011, 07:32 AM

That is a great tutorial I have copied all

cptechie · #5 06-10-2011, 07:36 AM

Hello,

Thanks for sharing the tutorial. It is really appreciable if members share such tutorials.

I will surely try it in my test server.

OscarS · #6 06-10-2011, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zFastDan

Great tutorial.

For some reason I had to put my index.html file in /srv/www/lighttpd

But apart from that, worked on a CentOS 5 32bit VPS!

Regards,
Daniel

Ya I know, was my bad, since we can't edit our old threads...