Lighttpd

The problem is this..

on my MacMini running OSX 10.4.11 using macports, installed the following:

1) lighttpd 1.4.6 with ssl varient
2) I have installed mysql5 server 5.1.48
3) Php5 5.3.2 with fastcgi -mysql5 and +pear varients

I have attached the following config files:

1) lighttpd.conf - located at "/opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf" with root:admin having "-rw-r--r--" access
2) php.ini - located at "/opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini" with root:admin having "-rwxrwxrwx" access

As you can see, I have uncommented the following lines in the lighttpd.conf file:

mod_rewrite
mod_redirect
mod_access
mod_auth
mod_fastcgi
mod_accesslog

and uncommented the "fastcgi.server" as follows..

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>
( "localhost" =>
(
"socket" => "/opt/local/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/opt/local/bin/php-cgi"
)
)
)

the "socket" path to folder "lighttpd" has root:admin with "drwxr-xr-x" access and
the file "php-fastcgi.socket" has root:admin with "drwxrwxrwx" access.

When I boot up the mac and try to access my server I get "Unable to Connect" error in Firefox 3.6.8 and "Safari can't connect to the server" in Safari 4.1.1.

When I try to manually start Lighttpd using "sudo lighttpd -f /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -D", I am returned to the prompt with out any confirmation ( nothing happens ) and the pages still does not load.

When I comment out the mod_fastcgi line in lighttpd.conf, and reboot the mac, the webpage loads fine with no problems except i have no php support ( I have the standard php.info file set-up in my web server's root folder.)

What am I doing wrong here?