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Today, I would like to share with you how to install and use the Lighttpd Web server under Linux. The content is detailed and the logic is clear. I believe most people still know too much about this knowledge, so share this article for your reference. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standard, and very flexible web server that optimizes high-performance environments. Compared with other web servers, it takes up less memory and pays attention to CPU load. Its advanced feature set (FastCGI,CGI, authentication, output compression, URL redirection, etc.) makes Lighttpd the perfect web server software for every server trying to get out of the bottleneck.

Install Lighttpd using package Manager installation

Here we install Lighttpd by using the package manager, which is the easiest way. Simply enter the following instructions in the terminal or console in sudo mode.

CentOS 7

Since Lighttpd is not available in the official repository of CentOS 7.0, we need to install an additional software source epel repository in the system. Use the following yum directive to install epel.

# yum install epel-release

Then, we need to update the system and prepare for the installation of Lighttpd.

# yum update# yum install lighttpdUbuntu 15.04

Lighttpd is included in the official warehouse of Ubuntu 15.04, so you only need to update the local warehouse index and use the apt-get directive to install Lighttpd.

# apt-get update# apt-get install lighttpd install Lighttpd from source code

If you want to install the latest version (for example, 1.4.39) from the Lighttpd source code, we need to compile the source code locally and install it. First, we need to install the dependency packages needed to compile the source code.

# cd / tmp/# wget http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.39.tar.gz

When the download is complete, execute the following instructions to extract it.

# tar-zxvf lighttpd-1.4.39.tar.gz

Then use the following instructions to compile.

# cd lighttpd-1.4.39#. / configure# make

* * Note: * * in this tutorial, we installed Lighttpd with the default configuration. Other extension features, such as support for SSL, modrewrite,modredirect, etc., need to be configured by yourself.

When the compilation is complete, we can install it into the system.

# make install sets Lighttpd

If there is a higher requirement, we can make further settings for Lighttpd by modifying the default settings file, such as / etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. In this tutorial, we will use the default settings and do not modify the settings file. If you have made any changes and want to check the settings file for errors, you can execute the following instructions.

# lighttpd-t-f / etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf using CentOS 7

In CentOS 7, we need to create a webroot folder that is set in the Lighttpd default configuration file, such as / src/www/htdocs.

# mkdir-p / srv/www/htdocs/

Then copy the default welcome page from / var/www/lighttpd to the newly created directory:

# cp-r / var/www/lighttpd/* / srv/www/htdocs/ enable the service

Now restart the Web service by executing the systemctl instruction.

# systemctl start lighttpd

Then we set it to run automatically with the system started.

# systemctl enable lighttpd setting Firewall

If we want our web pages or websites running on Lighttpd to be accessed in Internet or within the same network, we need to open port 80 in the firewall program. Since both CentOS 7 and Ubuntu15.04 come with Systemd as the default initialization system, we use firewalld by default. To open port 80 or the http service, we only need to execute the following command:

# firewall-cmd-permanent-add-service=httpsuccess# firewall-cmd-reloadsuccess

Connect to a Web server

After setting port 80 as the default port, we can directly access the default welcome page of Lighttpd. We need to set the browser's IP address and domain name according to the device running Lighttpd. In this tutorial, we have the browser access http://lighttpd.linoxide.com/ and point the subdomain name to the above IP address. In this way, we can see the following welcome page in the browser.

In addition, we can add the files of the website to the webroot directory and delete the default index file of Lighttpd to make our static website accessible on the Internet.

If you want to run the PHP application in the Lighttpd Web server, please refer to the following steps:

Install the PHP5 module

After Lighttpd is successfully installed, we need to install PHP and related modules to run the PHP5 script in Lighttpd.

Using Ubuntu 15.0 Lighttpd apt-get install php5 php5-cgi php5-fpm php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-intl php5-imagick php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php-pear to set up Lighttpd's PHP service using CentOS Lighttpd yum install php php-cgi php-fpm php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-pecl-imagick php-mcrypt php-memcache php-pear lighttpd-fastcgi

To get PHP and Lighttpd to work together, we just need to execute the following instructions depending on the distribution we are using.

Use CentOS 7

The first thing to do is to use the file editor to edit the php settings file (for example, / etc/php.ini) and uncomment the line cgi.fix_pathinfo=1.

# nano / etc/php.ini

After completing the above steps, we need to transfer ownership of the PHP-FPM process from Apache to Lighttpd. To do this, first open the / etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf file with a file editor.

# nano / etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Then add the following statement to the file:

User = lighttpdgroup = lighttpd

After doing this, we save and exit the text editor. Then add the FastCGI module from the / etc/lighttpd/modules.conf settings file.

# nano / etc/lighttpd/modules.conf

Then, uncomment it by removing the # before the following statement.

Include "conf.d/fastcgi.conf"

Finally, we need to set up the settings file for FastCGI in the text editor.

# nano / etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf

Add the following code at the end of the file:

Fastcgi.server + = (".php" = > (("host" = > "127.0.0.1", "port" = > "9000", "broken-scriptfilename" = > "enable")

Save and exit the text editor after editing.

Use Ubuntu 15.04

To enable FastCGI for Lighttpd, simply execute the following code:

# lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgiEnabling fastcgi: okRun / etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload to enable changes# lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-phpEnabling fastcgi-php: okRun `/ etc/init.d/ Lighttpd` force-reload to enable changes

Then, execute the following command to restart Lighttpd.

# systemctl force-reload lighttpd to check the working status of PHP

To check whether PHP is working as expected, we need to create a new php file in the webroot directory of Lighttpd. In this tutorial, create and open info.php using a text editor under the / var/www/html directory under Ubuntu and / src/www/htdocs directory under CentOS.

Use CentOS nano / var/www/info.php use Ubuntu 15.0 nano / srv/www/htdocs/info.php

Then simply add the following statement to the file.

After editing, save and launch the text editor.

Now, we need to point our web browser to the Lighttpd running on the system based on the IP address or domain name of the info.php file under the path http://lighttpd.linoxide.com/info.php. If everything follows the above instructions, we will see the PHP page information shown in the following figure.

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