Obviously, you may need to point to /usr/local/bin/lighttpd-start if you installed with --prefix=/usr/local
Put this at: /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.lighttpd.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Labelkey>net.lighttpd< /string> <key>ProgramArgumentskey>/usr/bin/lighttpd-startstring> </array> <key>RunAtLoadkey> /> dict> </plist>