Installing Lighttpd on CentOS 5
After dealing with some weird update issues trying to do this with a manually-download rpm file, I finally figured out that performing the following worked just fine:
# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# yum -y install lighttpd lighttpd-fastcgi mysql-server
# chkconfig --levels 235 lighttpd on
# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
I did decide to change the port to 81 so that apache could still run on 80:
# vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf