I’m now running this site on lighttpd and PHP5.
In theory there shouldn’t be any noticable difference between that and apache2, except lighttpd shouldn’t eat all available memory and hose the server when the sites I’m hosting get hit hard. I’m not 100% convinced about the speed of page generation, but that could be due to my php5 compile… I think there are a few things I’ve left out.
My main clue to this is that my wordpress dashboard is missing when I load my admin area. I’ll have a little look around tomorrow to see what is causing it, as it’s not essential and all the other sites work properly.
If anyone knows off the bat what bit of php5 I’ve neglected to compile in, feel free to leave a message. :)
Update: Ok, it’s not my php5 install that’s causing the problem. Apparently the Wordpress Dev Blog is broken which is why I’m not getting my Dashboard updated.
splee.blog » Blog Archive » lighttpd, Take 2 | 17-Nov-05 at 2:53 pm | Permalink
[...] Around the end of June I switched my server to lighttpd but, due to some unknown issue, all my wordpress pages using rewrites were giving back 404’s - even though the page was being displayed correctly. This basically broke my feeds as most feed readers discard 404’s even if the server passes content back too. [...]