FastCGI and PHP

[Phillip B Oldham]

Reinis Rozitis wrote:
> It doesnt really matter as far as the service listening on the port 
> "talks" the Fastcgi protocol.
> You can add as many backend handlers to nginx as you wish the only 
> limitation is you can't push a single request to all of them eg if you 
> open /index.php you can't handle it with php and some other fastcgi 
> app the same time but probably there is a possibility of a subrequest.
So is it possible to have multiple instances of a fastcgi server, each 
listening on a different port/socket, and have nginx balance the load 
between them? If so, would nginx understand the FCGI_OVERLOADED response 
and pass the request to another instance?
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*Phillip B Oldham*
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