lighttpd2 and php under fast-cgi returns 403 "Permission denied"

lighttpd2 is under development but it's faar enough to where i want to start using it. I've overcome the hurdle of installing it and getting vhost etc working. * PHP 5.6.6 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Feb 20 2015 17:27:21) * lighttpd-angel/2.0.0 - a fast and lightweight webserver | Build date: Mar 17 2015 13:42:32 * Arch Linux | linux 3.18.6-1 * VMWare Workstation 11.1.0 build-2496824 However php gives me the worst headache. /etc/lighttpd2/php.conf looks as follows: if phys.path =$ ".php" { log.write "Accessing php file"; fastcgi "unix:/srv/http/php.sock"; } The sock used to reside under /var/run/lighttpd2/ but for access/debugging purposes I moved it to /srv/http where the entire doc-root is. And this is what my /etc/lighttpd2/lighttpd.conf looks like: setup { module_load [ "mod_accesslog", "mod_dirlist", "mod_vhost" "mod_fastcgi" ]; listen "0.0.0.0:80"; listen "[::]:80"; log [ "info" => "/var/log/lighttpd2/info.log", "error" => "/var/log/lighttpd2/error.log", "abort" => "/var/log/lighttpd2/error.log", "backend" => "/var/log/lighttpd2/backend.log", "debug" => "/var/log/lighttpd2/debug.log", default => "/var/log/lighttpd2/error.log" ]; accesslog "/var/log/lighttpd2/access.log"; accesslog.format "%h %V %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""; static.exclude_extensions [ ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi", "~", ".inc" ]; } include "/etc/lighttpd2/mimetypes.conf"; include "/etc/lighttpd2/vhost.conf"; include "/etc/lighttpd2/php.conf"; #docroot "/srv/http"; index [ "index.php", "index.html", "index.htm", "default.htm", "index.lighttpd.html" ]; dirlist; static; Not sure if I should comment out static at the end or not. And finally, my "startup script" for php looks as follows: #!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=2 \ PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=10000 \ LANG=C LC_ALL=C \ exec /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -n -s /srv/http/php.sock -u www-data -U www-data -- /usr/bin/php-cgi My logs are almost empty, but never the less here's what they say: Startup log from systemd --- Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_plugin.c:166): activate Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_plugin.c:177): done Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: suspended (dest: down) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: stopping (dest: down) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: stopping (dest: down) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: down (dest: down) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: down (dest: down) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (info) lighttpd_worker.c:141: going down Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: debug (angel_server.c:367): instance released Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_main.c:94): going down Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_plugin.c:166): activate Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_plugin.c:171): activate: core Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: debug (angel_server.c:184): Instance (30976) spawned: /usr/lib/lighttpd-2.0.0/lighttpd2/lighttpd2-worker Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_plugin.c:177): done Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: info (angel_main.c:90): parsed config file Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) lighttpd_worker.c:105: config path: /etc/lighttpd2/lighttpd.conf Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) plugin_core.c:1254: loaded module 'mod_accesslog' Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) plugin_core.c:1254: loaded module 'mod_dirlist' Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) plugin_core.c:1254: loaded module 'mod_vhost' Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) plugin_core.c:1254: loaded module 'mod_fastcgi' Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: loading (dest: suspended) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: suspended (dest: suspended) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: suspended (dest: suspended) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: debug (angel_plugin_core.c:638): listen to ipv4: '0.0.0.0:80' (port: 80) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: debug (angel_plugin_core.c:679): listen to ipv6: '::' (port: 80) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: warmup (dest: running) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: warmup (dest: running) Mar 17 17:14:21 ArchKB lighttpd2: 2015-03-17 17:14:21 CET: lighttpd2-worker: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: running (dest: running) Error-log is empty, but info.log says: 17/Mar/2015 17:14:21 CET (info) server.c:58: Got signal, shutdown debug.log says: 17/Mar/2015 17:12:29 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: suspending (dest: down) 17/Mar/2015 17:12:29 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: suspending (dest: down) 17/Mar/2015 17:12:29 CET (debug) server.c:677: Try reaching state: suspended (dest: down) 17/Mar/2015 17:12:29 CET (debug) server.c:765: Reached state: running (dest: running) And access.log (after I've requested index.php) says: 192.168.253.1 192.168.253.130 - [17/Mar/2015:17:12:36 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 3744 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.89 Safari/537.36" Access on files --- If I comment out everything to do with **php**, I get the file as a downloaded object with the proper content of: The header() mod is just to make sure that lighttp doesn't screw up the headers because it's CGI (it's happned before and this *should* not affect the end result in a bad way). The permissions looks as follows: -rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 84 Mar 17 16:40 index.php srw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 17 16:47 php.sock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Mar 17 17:06 wham.html "Funny" thing is that I can request wham.html without a problem and it's owned by root, but according to the documentation only working should be run as non-root, which I am: root 30975 0.0 0.6 5104 3140 ? Ss 17:14 0:00 /usr/sbin/lighttpd2 -c /etc/lighttpd2/angel.conf www-data 30976 0.0 0.7 52048 3760 ? Ssl 17:14 0:00 /usr/lib/lighttpd-2.0.0/lighttpd2/lighttpd2-worker --angel -c /etc/lighttpd2/lighttpd.conf Where the hell am I going wrong about this? --- My conclusion is that it's something to do with php.conf, because log.write never executes, or at least I can't see anything in any of the logs. So I need help, badly!