README.SLACKWARE For lighttpd2 lighttpd2 can be started and stopped through the initialization script that is provided: /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd2 start /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd2 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.lighttpd2 ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd2 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.lighttpd2 ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.lighttpd2 stop fi * PHP users: Slackware's default php package is meant to work with httpd(apache). It works fine with lighttpd assumed the addition of the user lighttpd run as to the "apache" group. gpasswd -a lighttpd apache Otherwise, php won't be able to use $_SESSION. This slackbuild already setup php in /etc/lighttpd2/lighttpd.conf and build a fastcgi server, spawn-fcgi. This is used as a daemon with its own init script, /etc/rc.d/rc.spawn-fcgi (that can be started at boot in the same way of rc.lighttpd2).