Howtoforge published a tutorial about installing Lighttpd with PHP-FPM and MariaDB on CentOS 8.
How to Install Lighttpd with PHP-FPM and MariaDB on CentOS 8
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the LLMP Stack on the CentOS 8 Server. We will install the Lighttpd web server with the MariaDB database server, and the PHP-FPM on the latest version of CentOS 8 server.
How to Install Lighttpd with PHP-FPM and MariaDB on CentOS 8