apt-get install curl

Then we need to launch it with the switch -I so lets say we want to find out the httpd that tuts4tech.net uses we would type the following

curl -I tuts4tech.net

Output:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Cookie
Set-Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; path=/
X-Pingback: http://tuts4tech.net/xmlrpc.php
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:29:21 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.19

From the output you can see that we use lighttpd
You can also just use this script http://tuts4tech.net/httpd.php?domain=tuts4tech.net

Setup The Folders and users

1. adduser domain1
   addgroup domain1
   adduser www-data domain1
   mkdir -p /home/domain1
   chown domain1:domain1 -R /home/domain1
   chmod 750 -R /home/domain1

   adduser domain2
   addgroup domain2
   adduser www-data domain2
   mkdir -p /home/domain2
   chown domain2:domain2 -R /home/domain2
   chmod 750 -R /home/domain2

Lighttpd Config

1. Open your lighttpd.conf

   nano /etc/lighttpd.conf

2. Add the following for the virtual host configuration

   $HTTP["host"] == "domain1.com" {
   server.document-root = "/home/domain1"
   accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain1/access.log"
   }

   $HTTP["host"] == "domain2.com" {
   server.document-root = "/home/domain2"
   accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain2/access.log"
   }

3. Save your config and restart lighttpd

   /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Setting Up Lighttpd

1. Download the lighttpd setup file from here. I chose the Setup Wizard (.exe) version.
2. Double-click on the downloaded executable to start the installation.
3. When the installation is done go to your lighttpd directory(by default its C:\program files\lighttpd) and run TestMode.bat A console window should open to indicate the server is started.
4. Go to http://localhost this should show a lighttpd test page.

Enabling PHP

1. Download php .zip package from here
2. Extract it to C:\php
3. Edit lighttpd-inc.conf (i.e. “C:\Program Files\LightTPD\conf\lighttpd-inc.conf”) with the following:
   1. Remove the comment tag(#) for "mod-cgi" (Line 20)
   2. Add this line (assuming that PHP was installed on C drive):
   3. cgi.assign = ( “.php” => “C:/php/php-cgi.exe” )
4. In your PHP directory rename the file php.ini-recommended to php.ini and edit php.ini with the following:
   1. short_open_tag = On
   2. display_errors = On
   3. doc_root = “C:\Progra~1\LightTPD\htdocs”

Testing PHP

1. You can test php by creating a file containing:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Place the file in your htdocs directory (i.e. “C:\Program Files\LightTPD\htdocs”), open up your browser and browse to the page. It should show you the php info page.