Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL On CentOS

What is Lighttpd?
Lighttpd is a webserver designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. This post shows how to install it with PHP5 and MySQL support on Centos 5.2.


1. Install MySQL
[root@server ~]# yum -y install mysql mysql-server

2. Create the system startup links for MySQL
[root@server ~]# chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start

3. Create Password for the MySQL root User
[root@server ~]# mysqladmin -u root password server123

4. Check if MySQL Networking is enabled
[root@server ~]# netstat -tap grep mysql
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 19852/mysqld

5. Set a MySQL password for your hostname
[root@server ~]# mysqladmin -h localhost -u root password server123

6. Installing Lighttpd
[root@server ~]# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
[root@server ~]# yum -y install lighttpd

7. Create the system startup links for Lighttpd
[root@server ~]# chkconfig --levels 235 lighttpd on
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start


8. Check service lighttpd
[root@server ~]# netstat -tap grep lighttpd
tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN 28352/lighttpd

9. Installing PHP5
[root@server ~]# 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@server ~]# nano /etc/php.inicgi.fix_pathinfo = 1


11. Uncomment "mod_fastcgi" in the file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
[root@server ~]# 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 these lines:

#### 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@server ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

13. Testing PHP5
[root@server ~]# nano /srv/www/lighttpd/info.php




14. Now check in browser http://localhost/info.php

15. Getting MySQL in PHP5
[root@server ~]# yum -y install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc

16. Restart service lighttpd
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
and check using http://localhost/info.php.

Refence URL: http://howtoforge.com/installing-lighttpd-with-php5-and-mysql-on-centos-5.2