Comments on: FreeBSD Install Lighttpd Web Server

By: Profesor

Profesor — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:05:12 +0000

thanks… useful for me… i will try to do.

By: plaid

plaid — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:39:21 +0000

Good article, thanks

By: Ty

Ty — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:23:19 +0000

Also add /var/log/lighttpd.access.log mine wouldn’t start without the three log files: lighttpd.log, lighttpd.error.log and lighttpd.access.log.

chown www:www

And all is right in the world.

By: Christofer

Christofer — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:26:41 +0000

Karthik -> read the httpd log…

By: Karthik

Karthik — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:19:36 +0000

Hey Vivek,

I installed lighttpd and mysql
mysql works fine but i can see lighttpd when i run netstat
and i’m also unable to connect!, what could be the reason?

By: GW

GW — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:28:56 +0000

I made a temporary and partially buggy not-official port for lighttpd 1.5. More precisely it is called lighttpd-devel and contains version 1.5.0-svn2299. It can be found on: http://gw.tnode.com/0036-LighttpdDevelopment/Files-FreeBSD/ Before you install it you must uninstall all other lighttpd installations. For the port version download, extract and use the above procedure on lighttpd-devel.port.tar.bz2. The configuration window is the only buggy thing in it, so try to select only things that work (not every option works). If you miss-configured something use "make config" to reconfigure.

By: vivek

vivek — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:19:00 +0000

You need to use PHP FastCGI, There is a Link at the bottom of tutorial.

By: CL

CL — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:37:50 +0000

Ok. Regarding PHP. Above there is no mention of which of the many options could or should be selected to make this work. CLI, CGI, FastCGI, etc… I’ve tried many combinations and read dozens of contradictory pages on this – without success – yet.