Long time listener first time poster, so please be gentle.

I have a LAMP setup which is working well, but apache is a bit bloated, so after reading some of the threads on this board, i thought i would install lighttpd.

Install went fine, also installed fast-cgi. I was running apache and lighttpd in parallel on different ports to test that the system was stable, I then shutdown apache and shifted lighttpd onto port 80, and things were going along fine.

After a restart, lighttpd refused to come back up, producing the error

lighttpd dead but subsys locked

I deleted the lighttpd file from the subsys file, but the problem persists.

Can anyone offer any debugging tips?

I am running Centos 5.5 32bit.

Thanks

Did Apache come back alive after the restart, preventing lighttpd from binding to port 80? Could happen if you just shut down Apache and didn't actually uninstall it...

I stopped apache, that would automatically unbind port 80 wouldn't it?

Ok figured out it was a permission conflict with lighttpd unable to open access.log file. Apache was not running at the time either.

I set my permissions up so that user lighttpd was a member of the apache group, so i'm unsure as to why it doesn't have the same permissions.