How To Install Lighttpd with PHP5 and MySQL support on CentOS 5

Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments. It's standards-compliant, secure and flexible. In this tutorial I'll show you how to install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.4 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

1. Installing MySQL 5 Server

To install MySQL run this command from the shell:

# yum install mysql mysql-server

Enable MySQL server on boot and start MySQL server:

# chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
# service mysqld start