Script to spawn php5-cgi to enable Nginx to serve PHP code/pages

Mark Alan varia at e-healthexpert.org
Thu Nov 6 13:32:23 MSK 2008


Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 
> 1. Works like a charm for me for 1 year.

That seems interesting. I am inclined to give it a try.

How do you set them up? Are you using Ubuntu or a Debian based Linux?
Could you post example scripts on how to set up the Unix domain sockets?


> 2. Security can be added so only specified users can connect to this 
> socket. You can't do this to tcp port, so tcp can be locally compromised 
>   to get privileges of the user running php-cgi.

That is interesting.

> 3. TCP _is_ slower then unix sockets. And it _is_ buffered too.
> 

Do you have any pointers to papers or other work about comparative speed 
testing?


Regards,
M.





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