How To Install lighttpd-fastcgi on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd-fastcgi
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is lighttpd-fastcgi
This package contains the spawn-fcgi helper for lighttpd’s automatic spawning of local FastCGI programs. Included is also a PHP .ini file to change a few defaults needed for correct FastCGI behavior.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lighttpd-fastcgi
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lighttpd-fastcgi.
Install lighttpd-fastcgi on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd-fastcgi
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lighttpd-fastcgi
Install lighttpd-fastcgi on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install lighttpd-fastcgi
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lighttpd-fastcgi
How To Uninstall lighttpd-fastcgi on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the lighttpd-fastcgi
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lighttpd-fastcgi
lighttpd-fastcgi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf
/etc/php.d/lighttpd.ini
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/ae16c249bbe6389e1917b589a06298e7b16347
/usr/lib64/lighttpd
/usr/lib64/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.so
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd-fastcgi
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd-fastcgi/fastcgi-state.txt
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd-fastcgi/fastcgi.txt
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd-fastcgi/spawn-php.sh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighttpd-fastcgi
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.