Noob looking for PHP help

[AMP Admin]

Jim you're a gem. :)



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru [mailto:owner-nginx at sysoev.ru] On Behalf Of Jim Ohlstein
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 11:39 AM
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
Subject: Re: Noob looking for PHP help

First, you need to download php and the patch, then apply the patch. There is a link to a working patch for php 5.2.9 in the php-fpm section of http://forum.nginx.org. At least it works for me using both 32 and 64 bit versions of CentOS 5.2. 

I'm using my phone right now so I'm not sure, but if I recall correctly the file is named patch.php-fpm. Assuming it is (and change the name if it is something else), place it and the php tarball in /usr/local/src. Unpack the php tarball and you should have a directory called php-5.2.9. 

To apply the patch run:

#cat patch.php-fpm | patch -d php-5.2.9 -p1

I use the following configuration options for 32 bit CentOS 5.2:

'--enable-fastcgi' '--enable-fpm' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-zlib' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-openssl' '--with-mysql' '--with-mysqli' '--with-mysql-sock' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-pspell' '--with-sqlite' '--enable-pdo' '--enable-reflection' '--with-gettext' '--enable-soap' '--enable-dom' '--with-png-dir' '--with-mhash' '--with-mcrypt'

You may not need all of them. 

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: "AMP Admin" <admin at ampprod.com>

Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:08:29 
To: <nginx at sysoev.ru>
Subject: RE: Noob looking for PHP help


Ouch Jim. Lol

I see your point.  I'm trying to get away from cPanel the best I can.

Ok, I'm going to compile it and give it a go!

One last thing... suggestions on what I should include when compiling php? Like is ' --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm' all I need?

Thanks! 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru [mailto:owner-nginx at sysoev.ru] On Behalf Of Jim Ohlstein
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:35 AM
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
Subject: Re: Noob looking for PHP help

Babysit? How often is a new version of php released and who says you need to "upgrade" if your current configuration is working? MySQL comes out with new versions much more often, as does nginx. 

Sounds like you may be better off with a control panel and let it "babysit" you.

Jim

------Original Message------
From: AMP Admin
Sender: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
ReplyTo: nginx at sysoev.ru
Subject: RE: Noob looking for PHP help
Sent: Apr 18, 2009 11:26 AM

I keep reading that php-fpm is the best for large busy sites.  Have you heard the same?

If so I think I have to install php and php-fpm manually but I'm not sure if that's the best option because how would we keep it up to date?  Who has time to babysit new versions and then recompile? 

Any suggestions? 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru [mailto:owner-nginx at sysoev.ru] On Behalf Of Nuno Magalhães
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:00 AM
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
Subject: Re: Noob looking for PHP help

Hi,

> yum install php-cgi php-cli php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc
> php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-magpierss
> php-mapserver php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mhash php-mssql php-shout php-snmp
> php-soap php-tidy

php-cgi oughta be enough (at least on Debian), the trick si to enable
it to start on boot, but if you use update-rc.d on you script it'll
do. Now make sure you fiddle with /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, there's a
part that's comented out about fast-cgi: configure that - pay
attention to the port the cgi server will be lsitening on, then HUP
nginx and give it a try.

HTH,
Nuno Magalhães

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