We Assume That The User Has Basic Knowledge To Use SSH Commands
In this tutorial we will be installing Lighttpd with PHP5 and MySQL Support On Debian Lenny.
First we will login to the server as root and make sure that every package is up-to date.
apt-get install lighttpd
Now Lighty is installed.. here are some commands that you can use to control Lighty.
To Start Lighttpd
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start
To Stop Lighttpd
/etc/init.d/lighttpd stop
To Restart Lighttpd
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
Next , we will install php and mysql packages.
apt-get install mysql-server php5-cgi php5-mysql
During installation of MySQl it will prompt to set a password.You are advised to set a strong password..
we will restart Lighttpd
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
No we have to configure lighttpd config so that it can handle PHP files.
cat > /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-cgi-php.conf
server.modules += (“mod_cgi”)
cgi.assign = (“.php” => “/usr/bin/php5-cgi”)^D
We now will restart lighttpd so that new configuration will be applied..
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
we can test the working of PHP by creating a PHP info file..
nano /var/www/phpinfo.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Now open phpinfo.php from your browser..and you should be able to see the output of phpinfo() function.