{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-12T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohanjith.net\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-01-12T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T22:52:00","slug":"wso2-wsfphp-with-lighttpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/wso2-wsfphp-with-lighttpd.html","title":{"rendered":"WSO2 WSF\/PHP with Lighttpd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to test drive WSO2 WSF\/PHP<\/a> on Lighttpd<\/a> because I couldn’t find any documentation specific for Lighttpd, or any one complaining that it cannot be done. I set up a new VMWare image running Debian so that I can blog all the steps involved in getting WSO2 WSF\/PHP working on Lighttpd running on Debian.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Install Lighttpd, PHP5<\/p>\n

I used apt-get to install Lighttpd and PHP5<\/p>\n

 $ sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5 <\/pre>\n
Step 2: Download and install WSO2 WSF\/PHP.<\/p>\n
I downloaded the Debian package.<\/p>\n
 $ axel -an 5 http:\/\/dist.wso2.org\/products\/wsf\/php\/wso2-wsf-php-1.2.0-debian.deb
 $ dpkg -i wso2-wsf-php-1.2.0-debian.deb<\/pre>\n
Step 3: Enable WSO2 WSF\/PHP<\/p>\n
I created a new file \/etc\/php5\/conf.d\/wsf.ini and added the following line.<\/p>\n
 extension=wsf.so <\/pre>\n
 Step 4: Enable FastCGI and PHP<\/p>\n
Fastest method to run PHP on Lighttpd is FastCGI, so we will be enabling FastCGI.<\/p>\n
 $ sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi<\/pre>\n
On Debian Lighttpd FastCGI configuration file contains the configuration for PHP4. We will have to edit \/etc\/lighttpd\/conf-enable\/10-fastcgi.conf to look like bellow.<\/p>\n
server.modules   += ( \"mod_fastcgi\" )

## Start an FastCGI server for php5 (needs the php5-cgi package)
fastcgi.server    = ( \".php\" =>
     ((
             \"bin-path\" => \"\/usr\/bin\/php5-cgi\",
             \"socket\" => \"\/tmp\/php.socket\",
             \"max-procs\" => 2,
             \"idle-timeout\" => 20,
             \"bin-environment\" => (
                     \"PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN\" => \"4\",
                     \"PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS\" => \"10000\"
             ),
             \"bin-copy-environment\" => (
                     \"PATH\", \"SHELL\", \"USER\"
             ),
             \"broken-scriptfilename\" => \"enable\"
     ))
)<\/pre>\n
Step 5: Restart Lighttpd<\/p>\n
You have to reload the Lighttpd configuration files.<\/p>\n
 $ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/lighttpd restart<\/pre>\n
 You have successfully installed WSO2 WSF\/PHP on PHP5 and Lighttpd. It is time to test whether it is a success. Simplest approach would be to see phpinfo()<\/code> page. Create a php file with the following line of code and place it in the document root. Then using a web browser goto that URL. In the page search for wsf section. This contains all the configurations about the WSF extension.<\/p>\n
I went throught to the trouble of actually consuming a SOAP web service to see whether this setup actually works and it was a success, but that is simply out of the scope of this post. These instructions should work on other Linux distributions with minor changes and any platform with few changes.<\/p>\n
Fly WSO2 WSF\/PHP with Lighttpd. Have fun.<\/p>\n