When restarting ligttpd, how do I get fastcgi php-cgi's to restart

Question

I'm running lighttpd with php5-cgi. Running /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart does not cause the php-cgi processes to restart. Should I just killall them, or is there a more appropriate way to get them to restart?

Answer 1

maybe you try one of these init scripts:

http://blog.codefront.net/2007/06/11/nginx-php-and-a-php-fastcgi-daemon-init-script/ or http://tomasz.sterna.tv/2009/04/php-fastcgi-with-nginx-on-ubuntu/

didnt try them myself but i guess i have to in the next days but it seems appropiate to reload php-fastcgi via (example code):

/etc/init.d php-cgi stop
/etc/init.d php-cgi start

maybe you can share your experience

or try to: "Change your PHP binary to FPM instead of old fastcgi"
as suggested in another answer here. that solved it for me!