gentoo/Lighttpd.md

#Setting up Lighttpd for PHP-fpm

Use flags

Recommended USE Flags for lighttpd - put these in /etc/portage/package.use rather than /etc/make.conf to make this easier to change if need be.

fastcgi -php threads openssl

To install, just do

emerge lighttpd

Config

To use lighttpd with php-fpm, we'll need to modify /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf to look like so:

server.modules += ("mod_fastcgi")
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
	            ( "localhost" =>
		            (
						"host" 		=> 		"127.0.0.1",
						"port"      => 		"9000"
		            )
	            )
            )

To make adding/editing websites easier, I recommend creating a /etc/lighttpd/sites.conf file, and including it in the /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file.