Comments on: Lighttpd PHP fastcgi configuration

By: Stephan Hughson

Stephan Hughson — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:34:55 +0000

On Ubuntu (and probably Debian too as I bet it’s the same package), you don’t need to add that stuff manually to lighttpd.conf anymore.

To get php running with lighttpd, you can just do:

apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi && lighttpd-enable-mod && service lighttpd restart

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:30:16 +0000

It worked on Debian 6, lighttpd 1.4.28, PHP 5.3.6

Thanks!

By: Diego Martins

Diego Martins — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:16:46 +0000

Dud, It’s Perfect!Everthing goes fine here! Tanks a lot!

By: needHelp

needHelp — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:42:39 +0000

Hi, I wanted to install Lighttpd with PHP support on my Fedora 12 VM. However, I don’t have access to the internet on the VMware station neither do I have yum installed. Any suggestions on how I could install Lighttpd with PHP support?

Thanks a lot!

By: brainextender

brainextender — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:33:26 +0000

I wonder how to enable fast-cgi for pages with html extension?!

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:29:54 +0000

I’ve read, that it is recommended to set PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS to something like 500.

By: China pictures

China pictures — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:06:47 +0000

Hi,

I want to have multiple php error_log files without using different php.ini files.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

By: qingqing

qingqing — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:41:48 +0000

I would like to set up a configuration just using CGI rather than fastcgi.

how should i set the configure file for it. thx

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:05:04 +0000

Sir
My server with lighttpd is working good and scripts are also running but they are not been abel to connect to there respective databases .Hense I am still on Apache . Please figure it out for me if you can.

Thanks.

By: mumuri

mumuri — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:21:08 +0000

for ubuntu it’s
apt-get install php5-cgi

By: semarsuper

semarsuper — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:19:14 +0000

mayank: what OS are you running ?
you need to install lighttpd-fastcgi,

redhat/fedora/centos
# yum install lighttpd-fastcgi

By: mayank

mayank — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:04:33 +0000

Starting lighttpd: 2007-12-27 14:26:03: (plugin.c.165) dlopen() failed for: /usr/lib/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.so /usr/lib/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.so: undefined symbol: ltostr
2007-12-27 14:26:03: (server.c.621) loading plugins finally failed
[FAILED]
i am unable to start it

By: mmao

mmao — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:07:05 +0000

You also need to create the log dir and the socket file dir, otherwise, the server can not be started

By: RuBiCK

RuBiCK — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:07:59 +0000

It works!

I write the solution:

server.modules += ( “mod_fastcgi” )

fastcgi.server = ( “.php” =>
((
“bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php4-cgi”,
“socket” => “/tmp/php.socket”,
“max-procs” => 2,
“idle-timeout” => 20,
“bin-environment” => (
“PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN” => “4″,
“PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS” => “10000″
),
“bin-copy-environment” => (
“PATH”, “SHELL”, “USER”
),
“broken-scriptfilename” => “enable”
))
)

By: RuBiCK

RuBiCK — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:47:40 +0000

Hi,

I get the next error when I try to start lighttpd

Starting web server: lighttpd2007-07-16 21:43:23: (configfile.c.827) source: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf line: 164 pos: 31 parser failed somehow near here: socket
failed!

The line 146 is the socket configuration for php.

Any ideas????

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:04:30 +0000

Pierre,

Thanks for the heads up. Post has been updated…

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:41:43 +0000

There is an typo in:
fastcgi.server = ( “.php” => (( “bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php-cgi”, “socket” => “/tmp/php.socket”, )))

the last “,” is actually causing issues.