This is a short description on how to install a robust LAMP web service environment. Here we will not choose Apache, but Lighttpd instead.
Firstly, let’s make two directories, one for source code compiling, and the other one is the installation path.
# mkdir ~/lighttpd /home/lighttpd
and then, let’s start downloading all the related files:
# wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
# wget http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.2.2/xcache-1.2.2.tar.g
# wget http://cn2.php.net/get/php-5.2.6.tar.bz2/from/au.php.net/mirror
- compile lighttpd from source code:
# tar zxvf lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
# cd lighttpd-1.4.19
# ./configure –target=i386-redhat-linux
–prefix=/home/lighttpd
–with-openssl –with-pcre –with-zlib –with-bzip2
–disable-ipv6 –with-PACKAGE=mod_redirect
–with-rewrite –with-redirect –with-ssi
# make && make install
It may also ask for some development packages, like bzip2-devel,
pcre-deve, you can also get a copy of these common packages from rpmfind.net or rpm.pbone, please pay some attention to its version numbers.
# cp lighttpd-1.4.19/doc/rc.lighttpd.redhat bin/rc.lighttpd
This control file needs to be adjusted, you need to fix some path variables as we current no follow the standard way.
After finish creating lighttpd, it’s time to compile PHP.
# tar jxvf php-5.2.6.tar.bz2
# cd php-5.2.6
# ./configure –prefix=/home/lighttpd –with-mysql –with-gd
–with-curl –enable-zip –enable-fastcgi –with-zlib –enable-zend-multibyte
You need to fix some depency errors, like curl-devel, it’s always
needed if you chose libcurl.After the installation, you need to copy
the default configuration file to the right place:
# cp php-5.2.6/php.ini-dist /home/lighttpd/lib/php.ini
Finally, we need to install XCache,you can check this link for details why we choose xCache, other than APC or eAccelerator.
# tar zxvf xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
# cd xcache-1.2.2
# /home/lighttpd/bin/phpize
# ./configure –enable-xcache –prefix=/home/lighttpd
# make && make test
# make install
After “make install”, it will notify you when the modules stored, by default, it’s here:
# ls /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
you can copy the file xcache.so to another place. I just
moved it to /home/lighttpd/lib, and the configuration directives are
needed to run xcache, so just run the following command:
# cat xcache-1.2.2/xcache.ini >> /home/lighttpd/lib/php.ini
Now, all the basic installation is finished, you can run: /home/lighttpd/bin/rc.lighttpd start to start your lighttpd instance, and perform your following testings
If you are using eaccelerator instead of xcache, the configuration parameters are mostly like this:
./configure –enable-eaccelerator=shared –with-php-config=/home/lighttpd/bin/php-config –prefix=/home/lighttpd
[Added at 2008-09-18] I performed a simple testing yesterday:
http://www.admon.org/uploads/doc/Apache-Lighttpd-with-FastCGI-Benchmark.html
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