There is no place like 127.0.0.1 :)

Fixed GD:
You will need a copy of drupal, the php-cgi and mysql from above Edit # vi /usr/local/etc/lighttpd.conf cgi.assign = ( ".php" => "/var/root/php/bin/php-cgi", ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl", ".py" => "/usr/bin/python", ".rb" => "/usr/local/bin/ruby", ".cgi" => "", ".sh" => "" ) pop php-cgi into /var/root/php/ It needs to reference /var/root/mysql/ : imac /php-5.2.3/ otool -L sapi/cgi/php-cgi sapi/cgi/php-cgi: /var/root/mysql//lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version 16.0.0) /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 94.0.0) /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.16.0) /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0) /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) TODO: Fast cgi support... (done!) Can now use fastcgi with the php-cgi above: ./php-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:521 then change /usr/local/etc/lighttpd.conf to have: server.modules = ( "mod_fastcgi" ) fastcgi.server = ( ".php" =>( "localhost" =>("host" => "127.0.0.1","port" => 521 ))) NEWS: also updated to include libgd - can do images and free type now: # ./php -i | grep -A 10 "GD Support" GD Support => enabled GD Version => bundled (2.0.34 compatible) FreeType Support => enabled FreeType Linkage => with freetype FreeType Version => 2.3.5 GIF Read Support => enabled GIF Create Support => enabled JPG Support => enabled PNG Support => enabled WBMP Support => enabled XBM Support => enabled