Lighttpd (pronounced “lighty”) is an open-source web server as an alternative to Apache and Nginx. It is a secure, flexible, fast and designed for speed-critical environments. It has a low memory footprint and can handle large number of connections in one server especially for busier sites.
PHP is an acronym for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”; PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language executed on the server.
PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
MySQL is a popular database solution for use in web applications.
This post will show you how to install Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) and MySQL on CentOS 6.5 VPS or dedicated server.
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2. Install Lighttpd, MySQL and PHP5 work in Lighttpd through PHP-FPM :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# yum install lighttpd php php-fpm lighttpd-fastcgi php-mysql mysql mysql-server -y
3. Configure Lighttpd :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
server.use-ipv6 = "enable"
Change to :
server.use-ipv6 = "disable"
4. Make lighttpd start at boot and also start lighttpd service:
[root@centos6-05 ~]# chkconfig --levels 235 lighttpd on
[root@centos6-05 ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
Browse your web server and Lighttpd welcome page should be displayed :
5. Configure PHP to work in Lighttpd through PHP-FPM :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
Enable PHP-FPM use a TCP connection instead of unix socket :
; '/path/to/unix/socket' - to listen on a unix socket. ; Note: This value is mandatory. listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
Configure user and group to lighttpd :
.. .. ; RPM: apache Choosed to be able to access some dir as httpd user = lighttpd ; RPM: Keep a group allowed to write in log dir. group = lighttpd .. ..
6. Make php-fpm start at boot and also start the php-fpm service :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# chkconfig --levels 235 php-fpm on
[root@centos6-05 ~]# /etc/init.d/php-fpm start
7. Open and modify /etc/php.ini :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# vi /etc/php.ini
Uncomment the line cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
.. ; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI. PHP's ; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok ; what PATH_INFO is. For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs. Setting ; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix its paths to conform to the spec. A setting ; of zero causes PHP to behave as before. Default is 1. You should fix your scripts ; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED. ; http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.cgi.fix-pathinfo cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 ..
8. Open and modify /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# vi /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf
Uncomment the line include “conf.d/fastcgi.conf”:
.. ## FastCGI (mod_fastcgi) ## include "conf.d/fastcgi.conf" ..
9. Open and modify /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf :
Add below fastcgi.server at bottom of the file :
.. fastcgi.server += ( ".php" => (( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => "9000", "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable" )) ) ..
10. Reload the PHP-FPM and Lighttpd service :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# /etc/init.d/php-fpm reload
[root@centos6-05 ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload
11. Since MySQl has been install, dont forget to make MySQL start at boot and start the MySQL service :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
[root@centos6-05 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
12. Create info.php under ligghttpd document root :
[root@centos6-05 ~]# vi /var/www/lighttpd/info.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Browse your page http://IP-Adress/info.php. Thats all.