sudo apt-get install php5-cgi
Installing Lighttpd 1.5
The latest version I could find on their site:
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/Docs:ModCache
http://opensu.se/~darix/lighttpd/
http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/tag/1.5.0
wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0-r1992.tar.gz
wget http://www.linux.com.cn/modcache/lighttpd-1.5.0.r2294.modcache.v.1.6.1.tar.gz
This is the patched version of lighttpd with mod_cache, extract this to a folder
tar zxvf lighttpd-1.5.#######.gz
cd lighttpd-1.5.0.cache
We need to install some required libraries first
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libattr1-dev libpcre3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libfam-dev libldap2-dev libfcgi-dev libgdbm-dev libmemcache-dev liblua5.1-0-dev pkg-config uuid-dev libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev libkrb5-dev libglib2.0-dev libaio-dev libfam0 memcached
type ./configure --help to see configuration options
This is what I used
./configure --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-openssl --with-memcache --with-gdbm
make
sudo make install
after installing you should be able to type
lighttpd -V
and see some nice output from lighttpd
you can also type spawn-fcgi to make sure that installed as well
type sudo su
copy the sample config file
mkdir /etc/lighttpd
cp doc/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd/
log folder
mkdir /var/log/lighttpd
we need to create a startup file in the /etc/init.d folder
Go here to download the startup script http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/ScriptsUbuntu
create a file called lighttpd in the /etc/init.d/ folder and then
chmod a+x /etc/init.d/lighttpd
Create a user to run lighttpd: if you have installed lighttpd 1.4 from apt or apache you can just use the www-data user again
adduser -m -d /var/www -s /sbin/nologin lighttpd
Modify the lighttpd file from /etc/init.d/ to match the user you want to run it as
chown www-data:www-data /var/log/lighttpd
then type
update-rc.d lighttpd defaults
Edit the lighttpd.conf file to enable php fastcgi
Make sure following modules are loaded:
server.modules += ( "mod_cache" "mod_proxy_core", "mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi" )
You can also enable other modules that you need, mod_cache has to be enable first!
cache.bases = ("/var/cache/lighttpd")
cache.enable = "enable"
cache.support-queries = "enable"
cache.debug = "enable"
cache.dynamic-mode = "enable"
Change
server.document-root = "/var/www/"
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.event-handler = "linux-sysepoll"
server.network-backend = "gthread-aio"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
compress.cache-dir = "/tmp/lighttpd/cache/compress/"
compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html")
#### status module
status.status-url = "/server-status"
status.statistics-url = "/server-statistics"
cache.bases = ("/var/cache/lighttpd")
cache.enable = "enable"
cache.support-queries = "enable"
cache.debug = "enable"
cache.dynamic-mode = "enable"cache.refresh-pattern = (
"/$" => "5 update-on-refresh no-expire-header", # update homepage every 5 minutes and on refresh requests without setting expire headers
"\.(?i)(flv)$" => "0 fetchall-for-range-request flv-streaming", # to work with mod_flv_streaming for flv files
"\.(?i)(js|css|xml)$" => "240", # update js/css/xml every 4 hours and on refresh requests
"\.(?i)(htm|html|shtml)$" => "30", # update html/htm/shtml every 30 minutes and on refresh requests
"\.(?i)(jpg|bmp|jpeg|gif|png)$" => "2880", # update graphics files every 2 days
"\.(?i)(rar|zip|wmv|avi|mp3|ape|rm|mpeg|mpg|wma|asf|rmvb|flv)$" => "0 fetchall-for-range-request", # cache media file forever
".(?i)php$" => "5", # update php request every 5 minutes
"." => "30 update-on-refresh" # default to update every 30 minutes and on refresh requests
)
Make sure /var/cache/lighttpd is writeable by lighttpd and it exists.
Configure fastcgi PGP module by appending following configuration directives:
$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.php$" {
proxy-core.balancer = "round-robin"
proxy-core.allow-x-sendfile = "enable"
# proxy-core.check-local = "enable"
proxy-core.protocol = "fastcgi"
proxy-core.backends = ( "unix:/tmp/php-fastcgi.sock" )
proxy-core.max-pool-size = 16
proxy-core.worked-with-modcache = "enable"
}
Make sure to leave the # in front of proxy-core.check-local = "enable" otherwise lighttpd won't start, don't know why.
Also don't forget to add proxy-core.worked-with-modcache = "enable" otherwise mod_cache won't do anything.
Save the config file and start lighttpd
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
If everything goes well you should see something like this
* Starting lighttpd [ OK ]
* Starting spawn-fcgi spawn-fcgi.c.206: child spawned successfully: PID: 15245
[ OK ]
inside the /var/www folder create index.php file and add something to it
test by browsing http://localhost/index.php
You should see php configuration options here
How to uninstall
go back to the lighttpd source
sudo make uninstall
References:
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/InstallFromSource
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-lighttpd-15-installation-configuration-howto.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-increase-lighttpd-performance-with-linux-aio.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-linux-lighttpd-1-5-fastcgi-configuration.html
http://www.linux.com.cn/modcache/
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/Docs:ModCache#Installation
