Setting Up Lighttpd With FastCGI

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

This material is obsolete ... PHP7 is not in the repositories. (Discuss)

# apk add lighttpd php7-common php7-session 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 php7-simplexml

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

include "mod_fastcgi.conf"

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

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