This is a how-to to on installing and setting up lighttpd and PHP on Maverick. Lighttpd or "lighty" is a webserver with a very low use of resources. Install the packages we need: (this may not be all, but these two will automatically download the rest as dependencies) sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgiEnable the fastcgi module and the php configuration with sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi sudo