Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 16 - Page 2

Author: Falko Timme

5 Configuring Lighttpd And PHP5

To enable PHP5 in Lighttpd, we must modify two files, /etc/php.ini and /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. First we open /etc/php.ini and uncomment the line cgi.fix_pathinfo=1:

vi /etc/php.ini

[...]
; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI.  PHP's
; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok
; what PATH_INFO is.  For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs.  Setting
; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix its paths to conform to the spec.  A setting
; of zero causes PHP to behave as before.  Default is 1.  You should fix your scripts
; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED.
; http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.cgi.fix-pathinfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
[...]

Then we open /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf and make sure that "mod_fastcgi" is enabled:

vi /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf

[...]
server.modules += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
[...]

Then, further down the file, there's a fastcgi.server stanza which we uncomment as well:

[...]
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
                   ( "php-local" =>
                     (
                       "socket" => socket_dir + "/php-fastcgi-1.socket",
                       "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
                       "max-procs" => 1,
                       "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable",
                     )
                   ),
                   ( "php-tcp" =>
                     (
                       "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                       "port" => 9999,
                       "check-local" => "disable",
                       "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable",
                     )
                   ),

                   ( "php-num-procs" =>
                     (
                       "socket" => socket_dir + "/php-fastcgi-2.socket",
                       "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
                       "bin-environment" => (
                         "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "16",
                         "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "10000",
                       ),
                       "max-procs" => 5,
                       "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable",
                     )
                   ),
                )
[...]

Make sure you change both bin-path lines to /usr/bin/php-cgi.

The socket directory translates to /var/lib/lighttpd/sockets/ which currently doesn't exist, therefore we must create it as follows:

mkdir -p /var/lib/lighttpd/sockets/
chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd /var/lib/lighttpd/

Open /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf...

vi /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf

... and activate the /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf file:

[...]
##
## FastCGI (mod_fastcgi)
##
include "conf.d/fastcgi.conf"
[...]

Then we restart Lighttpd:

systemctl restart lighttpd.service

6 Testing PHP5 / Getting Details About Your PHP5 Installation

The document root of the default web site is /var/www/lighttpd. We will now create a small PHP file (info.php) in that directory and call it in a browser. The file will display lots of useful details about our PHP installation, such as the installed PHP version.

vi /var/www/lighttpd/info.php

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Now we call that file in a browser (e.g. http://192.168.0.100/info.php):

As you see, PHP5 is working, and it's working through FastCGI, as shown in the Server API line. If you scroll further down, you will see all modules that are already enabled in PHP5. MySQL is not listed there which means we don't have MySQL support in PHP5 yet.

7 Getting MySQL Support In PHP5

To get MySQL support in PHP, we can install the php-mysql package. It's a good idea to install some other PHP5 modules as well as you might need them for your applications. You can search for available PHP5 modules like this:

yum search php

Pick the ones you need and install them like this:

yum install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc

Now restart Lighttpd:

systemctl restart lighttpd.service

Now reload http://192.168.0.100/info.php in your browser and scroll down to the modules section again. You should now find lots of new modules there, including the MySQL module:

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