Upgrading the system to FasCGI needs

Now it’s time to update the system and to install all is needed by our experiments: Lighttpd, FastCGI and SQLite libraries and so on.

First of all we start the virtual system that must be connected to Internet (my host system is part of a local network connected to Internet thought a router with a DHCP service that assign the IP address also to the virtualized operating system) , then:

• login (back2c / back2c)
  
  
• enter in root mode
  sudo -i
  (it's necessary to insert the password again)
  
  
• update the system
  apt-get update
  apt-get upgrade
  
  
• install the GNU C/C++ compiler
  apt-get install gcc build-essential
  
  
• install Lighttpd
  apt-get install lighttpd
  
  
• install FastCGI
  apt-get install libfcgi-dev
  
  
• install SQLite
  apt-get install sqlite
  

At this point the system is up-to-date and you can connect the browser of your host system to the Lighttpd server just created: simply insert the IP of the virtual machine as URL in your browser.

If you don't know the IP, simply digit ifconfig in the command line of your Ubuntu:


(IPs of the picture are invented)

Now, if you can see the welcome page of Lighttpd, our system is ready for the first CGI: in the next post we will experiment a simple “Hello world”.