Setting Up Lighttpd With FastCGI

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages:

vi /etc/apk/repositories

Uncomment the following:

http://pkg.example.com/alpine/v3.11/community

Update the packagelist:

apk update

Install the additional packages:

apk add lighttpd php7-common php7-iconv php7-json php7-gd php7-curl php7-xml php7-mysqli php7-imap php7-cgi fcgi php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-soap php7-xmlrpc php7-posix php7-mcrypt php7-gettext php7-ldap php7-ctype php7-dom

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf

vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Uncomment line:

include "mod_fastcgi.conf"

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf

vi /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

Edit the section:

/usr/bin/php-cgi

To:

/usr/bin/php-cgi7

Start lighttpd service and add to needed runlevel

rc-service lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default