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Lighttpd 1.5 SVN FastCGi

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A few weeks back I moved from lighttpd 1.4 to the SVN version so I could blog from flickr. From what I have seen lighttpd 1.5 is looks quite nice.

I did have one problem though. I couldn’t seem to work out why fastcgi wasn’t compiling. Turns out that fastcgi has been completely removed from lighttpd and being replaced with mod_proxy_core.

Once I found this out, setting up fastcgi to work with lighttpd was a breeze. I installed spawn-fcgi on gentoo, and configured respectively. I then added a few lines into my config that looked something like this. It may vary depending on your fastcgi spawner config.

  $PHYSICAL["existing-path"] =~ ".php$" {
      proxy-core.balancer = "round-robin"
      proxy-core.protocol = "fastcgi"
      proxy-core.allow-x-sendfile = "enable"
      proxy-core.backends = ( "127.0.0.1:1026" )
      proxy-core.max-pool-size = 16
      proxy-core.rewrite-request = (
        "_pathinfo" => ( ".php(/.*)" => "$1" )
            )
     }

Rebooted lighttpd and everything was working wonderful.
A few sites that helped me out.
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModProxyCore
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-linux-lighttpd-1-5-fastcgi-configuration.html

WordPress

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I thought I’d give wordpress a go now since I have a much more stable server to run it on. So far I’m liking the new interface (I know alot of people that previously used wordpress didn’t like it, however I like it compared to the old).

With a bit of tinkering it was pretty simple. A few plugins didn’t play nice, and mod rewrite was a little harder to do on lighttpd than apache, but with the help of another blog I was on my way to a happy start to wordpress.

I’ve used the wordpress blogger import and it has done a wonderful job so far :> Lets see how this goes (I’m still keeping a copy of my blogs in blogger just for history sake)