20Oct/090
PHP webdevelopment platform with Linux and FastCGI
One of the most important things that every PHP programmer should have at home is a good platform for testing his or her applications and scripts. Simple availability of MySQL, a web server and PHP parser is often not enough, especially if we need lots of extra software and we want to test our projects under different versions of them. In this post I will show how to use the features of Lighttpd, FastCGI and Linux to set up such a flexible PHP webdevelopment environment.