This snippet is not mine-- it's taken directly from Robert Simplicio's excellent guide "Lighttpd: The painless way". However, it was buried deep in the last section, and I wanted to ensure it wasn't missed.
Once you've gone to all the trouble of configuring Lighttpd, make sure it's actually serving out your pages:
curl -I http://domain.name
Your should see something like this:
-bash-2.05b$ curl -I http://simplicio.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:27:40 GMT Server: lighttpd | TextDriven Last-Modified: Tue, 10 May 2005 03:56:11 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: The blood, sweat and tears of the fine, fine TextDrive staff Served-By: TextDrive