Yay! I got typo working with lighttpd and fcgi. Here’s what I did in my server environment.

1. Installed typo
   1. installed the latest tarball from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/
   2. gem install rails
   3. svn checkout svn://leetsoft.com/typo/trunk typo
2. Installed fcgi and lighttpd
   1. apt-get install libfcgi-ruby1.8 libpcre3-dev
      note: pcre needed for mod_rewrite
   2. downloaded latest tarball (1.4.4) for lighttpd
3. Configuration
   1. Copied the script into my script/ in the typo rails directory
   2. chmod +x script/light_rails
   3. began lighttpd with script/light_rails -b 72.0.101.155 -a typo -p 80
   4. modified script/light_rails to use mod_status and mod_simple_vhost

Make sure to modify your dns records so that your virtual host is recognized by everyone’s browsers. Otherwise you’ll get $url could not be found. Please try again. from firefox.

I also used the following resources:

1. rails wiki – search for lighttpd
2. Naturally lighttpd
3. http://hieraki.simplicio.com/read/chapter/1