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How to install Lighttpd, PHP5, and MySQL on FreeBSD
How do I install Lighttpd web server under FreeBSD along with MySQL 5 and PHP5?
lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that is suffering load problems. Installing lighttpd is quite simple under FreeBSD operating system using ports.
Lighttpd on FreeBSD
First update your port tree by typing following commands:
# portsnap fetch
# portsnap update