Lighttpd

But it says there's no socket there. I haven't used a config like yours for fastcgi, so I can't tell you for sure, but, does it ask for a directory or for the full socket path? also, have you tried using TCP?

61 2010-09-13 12:59:02 (error) (mod_proxy_core.c:932) connect(unix:/var/run/lighttpd/php-spawn-fcgi.sock) failed: No such file or directory (2)
62 2010-09-13 12:59:02 (trace) (mod_proxy_core.c:1448) connecting to address unix:/var/run/lighttpd/php-spawn-fcgi.sock (0x6133e0) failed, disabling for 60 sec

MetaYii,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I am very much an amateur with regard to webservers. I have just been following instructions on the web and trying to get it to work with PHP and Wordpress. If you have a different configuration which works I would love if you could share it with me.

I have been going round and round in circles :(.

I am not even sure what TCP is to use it ? BTW the webserver I am using is on my own computer...so I connect directly to it.

Thanks for any help.

Cmweb

Paths and file names depend on you own setup:

/etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf

server.modules   += ( "mod_fastcgi" )

fastcgi.server = (   
   ".php" => (
               "php1" => ("host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9999, "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable", "max-procs" => 1, "disable-time" => 2)
             )
)

fastcgi.debug = 1
fastcgi.map-extensions = (".php3" => ".php")

/etc/rc.d/rc.spawn-cgi

#!/bin/bash

SPAWNFCGI="/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi" 
FCGIPROGRAM="/usr/bin/php-cgi" 
FCGIIP="127.0.0.1" 
FCGIPORT="9999" 

PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=300

FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS="127.0.0.1" 

ALLOWED_ENV="PATH USER" 

USERID=www-data
GROUPID=www-data

if test x$PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN = x; then
  PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
fi

export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
export FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS

ALLOWED_ENV="$ALLOWED_ENV PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS" 

E=

for i in $ALLOWED_ENV; do
  E="$E $i=$(eval echo "\$$i")" 
done

env - $E $SPAWNFCGI -a $FCGIIP -p $FCGIPORT -u $USERID -g $GROUPID -C $PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN -- $FCGIPROGRAM -c /etc/php/