Setting Up Lighttpd With FastCGI

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Basic Installation

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

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php fcgi php-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

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

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

... include "mod_fastcgi.conf" ...

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

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