Lighttpd

= FAQs =

Where to get help?

IRC: [http://www.freenode.net/ freenode], channel [irc://irc.freenode.net/lighttpd #lighttpd]

Mailing list: [http://lighttpd.net/documentation/ details], [http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd archive].

Filenames with + in them work fine in Apache, but not in lighttpd

The + represents a ' ' (space) in URLs. Apache circumvents the missing URI escaping and tries to find the file with a '+' if the one with the ' ' could not be found.

Solution: Always escape URIs. In php you have [http://www.php.net/urlencode urlencode].

FastCGI

=== Where is the spawn-php program/script available from? it's mentioned in docs but not available in the distributed package (1.3.7) ===

If you install lighttpd (http://lighttpd.net/download/INSTALL), the spawn-fcgi binary is installed automatically (to /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi by default).

The spawn-php.sh script can be found here: http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-php.sh