How To Install Lighttpd Web Server In Linux

hello and welcome to Webune Support Forums. Lately we have been getting alot of requests for installing Lighttpd as a web server in linux dedicated server instead of the traditional apache web server. so to help our customer find a way to do the installation themselves, we will show you how here. we are going to using this tutorial based on a CentOS Server.

first, access your dedicated server through a SSH session

once you are in the shell send this command:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

once the RPM completes downloading, send this command to install lighttpd
yum install lighttpd

now you want to make sure that when your server boots up, that lighttpd loads on startup
chkconfig --levels 235 lighttpd on

ok, last step, start your new lighttp server:
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start

thats it, now you can view your webserver by visiting your server's url: for example:
http://192.168.1.100/