[Ubuntu 10.04] Install Nginx + PHP5 packages?

Michael Shadle mike503 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 03:26:41 MSD 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Gilles Ganault <gilles.ganault at free.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:58:20 +0300, bvidinli
> <bvidinli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>ehcp is also going to release an easy installer for nginx.
>
> BTW, out of curiosity, at this point, what do people use to run PHP5
> with Nginx on production servers? PHP's built-in FastCGI server, some
> wrapper like spawn-fcgi, PHP5-FPM, something else?
>
> How does PHP5-FPM different from the php-cgi FastCGI?

php-cgi has no management or additional features that php-fpm offers.

spawn-fcgi is just a glorified way to launch php-cgi -b basically

Thousands of people (including Rasmus) use PHP-FPM and nginx in
production without an issue. I serve millions of requests a day from
it and can't complain.



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