Remember that this doesn't include init.d scripts and such, and is not great idea for production servers.
Using Debian repository installation of Lighttpd is advised, seek the older article of installing Django, I have exaplained it there.
# Dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libpcre3
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
# Compilation:
cd /usr/src/
sudo wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.19
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
ls -la /usr/local/sbin/ # should contain lighttpd (and lighttpd-angel)
ls -la /usr/local/lib/ # should contain whole bunch of mod_... files
# now since this is bare ass installation,
# we need to make init scripts and such ourselves
sudo adduser lighttpd
sudo apt-get install authbind
cd /etc/authbind/byport/
sudo touch 80
sudo chown lighttpd:lighttpd 80
sudo chmod 775 80
sudo mkdir /etc/lighttpd
sudo chown lighttpd:lighttpd /etc/lighttpd/
sudo su lighttpd
mkdir /home/lighttpd/public_html
pico /home/lighttpd/public_html/index.html
<html><body>Congrats I'm running!</body><html>
# Exit the pico
pico /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
server.document-root = "/home/lighttpd/public_html"
server.port = 80
index-file.names = ( "index.html", "index.htm" )
include_shell "/etc/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
# Exit the pico
pico /etc/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open MIMETYPES, "/etc/mime.types" or exit;
print "mimetype.assign = (\n";
my %extensions;
while() {
chomp;
s/\#.*//;
next if /^\w*$/;
if(/^([a-z0-9\/+-.]+)\s+((?:[a-z0-9.+-]+[ ]?)+)$/) {
foreach(split / /, $2) {
# mime.types can have same extension for different
# mime types
next if $extensions{$_};
$extensions{$_} = 1;
print "\".$_\" => \"$1\",\n";
}
}
}
print ")\n";
# Exit the pico
/etc/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl
# Runs the lighttpd for test ^C to exit
authbind /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -D
exit # exits the "sudo su lighttpd"
