3.6 Lighttpd with php

Install a Lighttpd Server with php

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
sudo systemctl start lighttpd
sudo systemctl enable lighttpd
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Answer all the questions as shown below:
Change the root password? [Y/n] n
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

sudo apt-get install php php-cgi php-fpm php-mysql -y
sudo nano /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini

Change the following line: (ctrl + w search for it)

cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

sudo nano /etc/php/7.3/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Find the following line:

listen = /run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock

And replace it with the following line:

listen = 127.0.0.1:9000

sudo systemctl restart php7.3-fpm

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/15-fastcgi-php.conf

Find the following line:s

"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
"socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php.socket",

And replace it with the following lines:

"host" => "127.0.0.1",
"port" => "9000",

sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi
sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi-php

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/example.com.conf

Add the following lines:

$HTTP["host"] == "www.example.com" {
    server.document-root = "/var/www/html/"
    server.errorlog      = "/var/log/lighttpd/example.com-error.log"
}

Save and close the file when you are finished. Then, enable the Virtual host with the following command:

ln -s /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/example.com.conf /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/

Now feel free to code your php website!

sudo nano /var/www/html/index.php

Example Content:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Save and close the file. Then, change the ownership of the Lighttpd document root directory to www-data with the following command:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/

Finally, restart Lighttpd service to apply all the configuration changes:

systemctl restart lighttpd