[[ https://www.lighttpd.net/ | Lighttpd Home ]]
Ref: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-lighttpd-with-php-fpm-and-mysql-on-debian/

====== Installation ======
  * apt-get install lighttpd
  * Modify /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
    * set server.document-root to "/home/usr/www", and "sudo chown www-data:www-data /home/usr/www"
  * start it
<code>
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
</code>
  * Test it by browser "http://rabi.chem.purdue.edu"
  * Modify /etc/passwd
<code>
#www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/home/usr/www:/bin/bash
</code>
  * Note that required packages: pcre (for compiling only)
  * Follow the instruction in https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-lighttpd-with-php-fpm-and-mysql-on-debian/
  * Note: 1) keep only two lines in fastcgi.server's body as shown; 2) apt-get install php5-mysqlnd php5-xcache; 3) to reload we can type either "/etc/init.d/xxx restart" or "systemctl restart xxx.service"

====== Setup php to work with lighttpd ======
  * [[http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/network/lighttpd/ | ref]]
  * Install php from slackpkg
  * Uncomment "include conf.d/fastcgi.conf" in /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf.
  * In the fastcgi section of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf, copy the following lines below the extisting commented out
fastcgi config.
<code>
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
  ( "localhost" =>
    (
    "socket" => "/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket",
    "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi -c /etc/lighttpd/php.ini"
    )
  )
)
</code>
  * Change the group of /var/lib/php from "apache" to "nobody". Otherwise php won't be able to use $_SESSION.
  * Test it by browser "http://rabi.chem.purdue.edu/test.php". If it does not work, make sure first you can run php from command line.
  * Note that required packages: libmcrypt, sqlite, net-snmp, t1lib

====== The following was copied from doku site ======
====== Lighttpd ======

[[:DokuWiki]] will run just fine with [[http://www.lighttpd.net|Lighttpd]] and PHP through FastCGI.

  - create ''/etc/dokuwiki/lighttpd.conf''
  - ''cd /etc/lighttpd/conf-available''
  - ''ln /etc/dokuwiki/lighttpd.conf 50-dokuwiki.conf''
    - <code>/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/50-dokuwiki.conf -> /etc/dokuwiki/lighttpd.conf </code>
  - enable config with ''lighttpd-enable-mod dokuwiki''
  - ''/etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload''

===== /etc/dokuwiki/lighttpd.conf =====

<code>
alias.url += ("/dokuwiki" => "/usr/share/dokuwiki")

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/dokuwiki" {
  server.follow-symlink = "enable"
}

$HTTP["url"] =~ "/(\.|_)ht" {
  url.access-deny = ( "" )
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/dokuwiki/(bin|data|inc|conf)" {
  url.access-deny = ( "" )
}
</code>

  * See [[:security#deny_directory_access_in_lighttpd]]
  * See [[:rewrite#lighttpd|rewriting]] for how to set up rewrite rules for clean URLs with lighty.

====== A better version ======
<code>
# DokuWiki configuration
# We assume here that the wiki is accessible via http://wiki.example.com/dokuwiki/
var.dokudir = "/dokuwiki"
 
# make sure those are always served through FastCGI and never as static files
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php" )
 
# deny access completely to these
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/(\.|_)ht" { url.access-deny = ( "" ) }
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^" + var.dokudir + "/(bin|data|inc|conf)/"  { url.access-deny = ( "" ) }
 
# rewrites for dokuwiki
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^" + var.dokudir { index-file.names = ("doku.php") }
url.rewrite-once = (
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/lib/.*$"                     => "$0",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/_media/(.*)?\?(.*)$"         => var.dokudir + "/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1&$2",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/_media/(.*)$"                => var.dokudir + "/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/_detail/(.*)?\?(.*)$"        => var.dokudir + "/lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1&$2",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/_detail/(.*)?$"              => var.dokudir + "/lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/_export/([^/]+)/(.*)\?(.*)$" => var.dokudir + "/doku.php?do=export_$1&id=$2&$3",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/_export/([^/]+)/(.*)"        => var.dokudir + "/doku.php?do=export_$1&id=$2",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/doku.php.*"                  => "$0",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/feed.php.*"                  => "$0",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/(.*)\?(.*)"                  => var.dokudir + "/doku.php?id=$1&$2",
  "^" + var.dokudir + "/(.*)"                        => var.dokudir + "/doku.php?id=$1"
)
</code>