How to Install Lighttpd with PHP5 and MySQL on CentOS 5.2 - Guruhowtos

30 Jan, 2009 in PHP by admin

How to Install Lighttpd with PHP5 and MySQL on CentOS 5.2

Lighttpd is software webserver designed to be secure, fast, standars-complaint, and flexible while being optimized for

speed-critical environments. This post using Centos 5.2.

1. Install Mysql

[root@rhesa ~]# yum -y install mysql mysql-server

2. Create the system startup links for MySQL

[root@rhesa ~]# chkconfig –levels 235 mysqld on

[root@rhesa ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start

3. Create Password for user mysql

[root@rhesa ~]# mysqladmin -u root password password123

4. Check service with

[root@rhesa ~]# netstat -tap | grep mysql

tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 19852/mysqld

5. Set a Mysql password for your hostname

[root@rhesa ~]# mysqladmin -h rhesa.swiftco.net -u root password password123

6. Installing Lighttpd

[root@rhesa ~]# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

[root@rhesa ~]# yum -y install lighttpd

7. Create the system startup links for Lighttpd

[root@rhesa ~]# chkconfig –levels 235 lighttpd on

[root@rhesa ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start

8. Check service lighttpd

[root@rhesa ~]# netstat -tap | grep lighttpd

tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN 28352/lighttpd

9. Installing PHP5

[root@rhesa ~]# yum install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli

10. Add the line cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 right at the end of the file /etc/php.ini

[root@rhesa ~]# nano /etc/php.ini

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

11. Uncomment “mod_fastcgi”, in the /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

[root@rhesa ~]# nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

server.modules = (

# “mod_rewrite”,

# “mod_redirect”,

# “mod_alias”,

“mod_access”,

# “mod_cml”,

# “mod_trigger_b4_dl”,

# “mod_auth”,

# “mod_status”,

# “mod_setenv”,

“mod_fastcgi”,

# “mod_proxy”,

# “mod_simple_vhost”,

# “mod_evhost”,

# “mod_userdir”,

# “mod_cgi”,

# “mod_compress”,

# “mod_ssi”,

# “mod_usertrack”,

# “mod_expire”,

# “mod_secdownload”,

# “mod_rrdtool”,

“mod_accesslog” )

And then uncomment this line

#### fastcgi module

## read fastcgi.txt for more info

fastcgi.server = ( “.php” =>

( “localhost” =>

(

“socket” => “/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket”,

“bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php-cgi”

)

)

)

12. Restart service lighttpd

[root@rhesa ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

13. Testing PHP5

[root@rhesa ~]# nano /srv/www/lighttpd/info.php

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

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One Response so far | Have Your Say!

sam | March 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pm #

your tutorial got me up and running on centos but i had to create a directory /var/run/lighttpd for lighttpd to start for some reason.
thanks

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