php fastcgi support - how do u do it?

[Igor Clark]

Just my +1 for php-fpm, although I haven't got round to using it in  
production yet.

I've been running PHP/FCGI using a home-made set of scripts, based  
around my version of Alexey Kovyrin’s PHP–FCGI spawn script, along  
with some init/chkconfig tools. It worked fine, and although there was  
never a graceful restart, I never had any major problems with it.

I read on this list about php-fpm and intended to try it out, but  
because what I had worked, I only did so yesterday. When I did, I was  
delighted to see how much more neatly it does everything I'd done in  
my scripts, as well as providing excellent additions such as signal  
support for useful functions and a fix for the "blank 200 page" problem.

Given how well it apparently runs in much more heavily-loaded  
environments than mine, I'm going to try this out on the next  
available project, and I suspect I'll be using it from now on. Thanks  
to Andrei for writing it, and to everyone who championed it. Shame I  
didn't get round to it earlier.

Best wishes,
Igor

On 11 Jul 2008, at 04:24, mike wrote:

> use php-fpm. it's a patch to php source. it's the best way to manage
> fastcgi pools/engines.
>
> anything else is hokey and some don't even work properly.
>
> On 7/10/08, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi, folks, I'm thinking of using nginx (quite obviously!!!) for one  
>> of my
>> deployments with php. Now since nginx doesnt do cgi, the only way  
>> to do
>> nginx with php is using fastcgi. The question now is, how, and in  
>> what way?
>> I'd like to gather some feedback from the list - if you use nginx  
>> with
>> fastcgi php, how do you implement your fastcgi? Using the fastcgi  
>> script as
>> provided by php, or using lighttpd's script, or?
>>
>> -jf
>>
>> --
>> In the meantime, here is your PSA:
>> "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it  
>> would not
>> help."
>> -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
>>
>

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