lighttpd is a fast, secure, and flexible webserver. It is optimized for high-performance environments, and provides an extensive feature set, including FastCGI, CGI, Auth, output compression, and URL rewriting support. By default, this package uses the "lighttpd" user and group to run lighttpd as a unpriviliged process. The script will exit if these do not exist on this machine. We recommend using the following UID and GID as they do not conflict with any stock Slackware users and groups, nor with any added by other slackbuilds.org scripts. lighttpd ======== User: lighttpd UID: 208 GID: 208 Group: lighttpd GID: 208 After that, lighttpd can be started and stopped through the initialization script that is provided: /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd start /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd stop If you would like to start lighttpd automatically when the system is booted, add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd start fi Conversely, add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown to stop lighttpd on system shutdown. if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd stop fi * PHP users: Slackware's default php package is meant to work with httpd(apache). It works fine with lighttpd with a couple of tweaks. 1) Copy the php.ini from /etc/httpd to /etc/lighttpd 2) Uncomment mod_fastcgi from the modules section of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. 3) Rework the fastcgi section of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf to the following: (Or just copy this in below the extisting commented out fastcgi config.) fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => ( "localhost" => ( "socket" => "/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket", "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi -c /etc/lighttpd/php.ini" ) ) ) 4) Change the group of /var/lib/php from "apache" to "lighttpd". Otherwise php won't be able to use $_SESSION.