I've confirmed this bug, as reported: I installed lighttpd:
The following NEW packages will be installed: lighttpd spawn-fcgi 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 326 not upgraded. Need to get 299 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,019 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 lighttpd amd64 1.4.45-1 [284 kB] Get:2 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 spawn-fcgi amd64 1.6.4-1+b1 [14.9 kB] Fetched 299 kB in 1s (194 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package lighttpd. (Reading database ... 206019 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../lighttpd_1.4.45-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking lighttpd (1.4.45-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package spawn-fcgi. Preparing to unpack .../spawn-fcgi_1.6.4-1+b1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking spawn-fcgi (1.6.4-1+b1) ... Setting up spawn-fcgi (1.6.4-1+b1) ... Setting up lighttpd (1.4.45-1) ... Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lighttpd.service → /lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service. Processing triggers for systemd (232-20) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... and confirmed it is running: root@reeds:/home/micah/debian/lighttpd-1.4.45# ps auxw |grep lighttpd www-data 2129 0.0 0.0 58924 5452 ? Ss 15:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf root 4119 0.0 0.0 12788 956 pts/3 S+ 15:03 0:00 grep lighttpd I enabled the module as described in the bug: root@reeds:/home/micah/debian/lighttpd-1.4.45# lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-php Met dependency: fastcgi Enabling fastcgi-php: ok Enabling fastcgi: ok Run "service lighttpd force-reload" to enable changes root@reeds:/home/micah/debian/lighttpd-1.4.45# service lighttpd force-reload and now lighttpd is not running: root@reeds:/home/micah/debian/lighttpd-1.4.45# ps auxw |grep lighttpd root 4223 0.0 0.0 12788 980 pts/3 S+ 15:04 0:00 grep lighttpd I will attempt to apply the patch and see if it works. micah