(fast)cgi and nginx - there has to be a better way

[mike]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Reinis Rozitis <r at roze.lv> wrote:

> Basically you dont need 'spawn-fcgi' from lighty to run php (for example).
> Because php by default has the ability to spawn and control the childs on
> its own..

exactly! this is all it does...

set env PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
set env PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
php -b $port!

php-fpm is much better, it allows for a nice config, easily set
uid/gid for each group, proper max requests / children - spawn-fcgi
for me did not seem to honor the max requests so my php engines never
restarted... kind of a big feature to be missing.

before php-fpm i just made my own upstart (on ubuntu) script which
basically did this

env PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=500
env PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=10
su -u $user /usr/local/bin/php -b $port

and it recycled the engines properly etc. but it wasn't as simple as php-fpm.