Help with installing PHP

I have been trying to a long time now to get php running on myPB. For some reason i can't seem to get it working.
I followed the tutorial found here [piratebox.cc]

I Just want to confirm i am doing this right:
Of course i do this:

 /etc/init.d/piratebox nodns
opkg update
opkg -d ext install extendRoot-php lighttpd-mod-fastcgi

That seems to go good.
Next part i am a little confused about:
I then Enter:

cat >/opt/piratebox/conf/lighttpd/fastcgi.conf <<EOF

which gives me

root@piratebox#:
>

Then i copy and paste this:

#-------------------- FAST CGI stuff

server.modules += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
>fastcgi.server = (
>    ".php" => ((
>                      "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
>                      "socket" => "/tmp/php.socket",
>                     "max-procs" => 1
>              ))
>)

Hit enter:
Then type

EOF

I can see now that i get a fastcgi.conf file generated with the above code inside.

Now i type this 2 lines:

echo 'include "/opt/piratebox/conf/lighttpd/fastcgi.conf"' >> /opt/piratebox/conf/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" >> /opt/piratebox/www/phpinfo.php

Now here is where i start noticing issues:

after restart my scripts i see it stopping lightpd
Then i get a umount error

So next i reboot

After i reboot i go to piratebox.lan/phpinfo.php
but now i get redirected back to the homepage,
I shut down and restart again but now i can no longer ssh into my box.

i am going to do a fresh install and wait for some much appreciated help from the experienced pros on here.


I tried it again an although i still get redirected back to piratebox.lan when going /phpinfo.php, every thing else looks good so i went ahead with the Calibre install, everything went find until i tried to use it.

First i get an error that states, when accessing it through the broswer at cops/index.php:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

So i viewed source which gave me this result:

<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to a member function fetchColumn() on a non-object in <b>/opt/piratebox/www/php/cops/author.php</b> on line <b>40</b><br />

I know nothing about php but i figured it was a syntax error, tried searching through author.php but had no luck.