FastCGI is an open interface web servers can use to execute applications in a secure and isolated manner.
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PHP: What are the advantages of FastCGI over mod_php?
It was recently suggested to me that I use FastCGI with PHP. Now I went to the FastCGI page and read it but I don't really understand what the advantages are.
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Apache vs Nginx
I have been investigating the differences between Apache and Nginx recently and am confused about which I should choose.
I have done some searching but there is no definitive comparison between the ...
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Recommended Nginx + WSGI Configurations
Please explain pros/cons when using the different Nginx WSGI interfaces? Please explain in detail what differentiates each configuration? Which configuration should scale the best?
If relevant, what ...
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Multiple php versions simultaneously on Ubuntu
I want to be able to run multiple php versions on my development box running Ubuntu 12.04. What I want to accomplish is that when I use localhost as domain a default is used (let's say php 5.3.17). ...
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nginx + fastCGI + Django - getting data corruption in the responses sent to the client
I am running Django behind nginx using FastCGI. I have discovered that in some of the responses sent to the client, random data corruption is occurring in the middle of the responses (might be a ...
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How to enable error log in lighttpd properly?
I have a Centos 5 system with Lighttpd and fastcgi enabled.
It does log access but does not log errors. I have Internal Server Error 500 and no info in log and when I try to open not -existing file ...
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What is wrong in my php-fpm configuration?
I have a 64-bit server but only 256MB of RAM. So, I moved to nginx server with fast-cgi to connect to PHP. I have PHP 5.3.6 running.
The issue is that after every two or three days when I try to ...
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Should I impersonate PHP via FastCGI?
I am installing the latest version of PHP onto IIS 7.5 via FastCGI, and all of the instructions say that FastCGI should impersonate the calling client by setting
fastcgi.impersonate = 1
If my ...
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Performance of IIS+ASP.NET vs (NGINX + FastCGI + Mono or XSP)?
How much requests each can handle? How many RAM needed?
As I remember FastCGI are opened initialized processes, each can handle one request.
What about multithreading?
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What Apache/PHP configurations do you know and how good are they?
I wanted to ask you about PHP/Apache configuration methods you know, their pros and cons. I will start myself:
---------------- PHP as Apache module----------------
Pros: good speed since you don't ...
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SCGI or FastCGI - What do you prefer?
I was doing some research (googling) on the subject, but all I could find were 2-3 year old posts. I'm interested in today's situation. Which do you prefer and why?
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PHP-CGI Started Serving Blank Pages
My PHP-CGI started serving blank pages for no apparent reason until I restarted the process.
I want to know why.
Unfortunately the "production" configuration file of PHP has no error_log by default. ...
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Apache Never runs after configuring eAccelerator and FastCGI
I recently configured accelerator and fastcgi with apache using: http://secure-ubuntu-server.blogspot.com/2009/07/howto-performance-tuning-of-lamp-and.html
Now my Apache never starts.
Logs shows:
...
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How do I setup Apache with FastCGI and Ruby?
I've been reading alot of forum posts, tutorials, etc., about setting up apache under linux with fastcgi. I'm trying to run fcgi for some of my ruby development (not rails), but I figure it should ...
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Configure FastCGI for Python
I have nginx running on a VM and I want to run a Trac site. I need to run a python FastCGI server, but I cannot tell which is the server to use. I have found the following:
Lighttpd spawn-fcgi But ...
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Enabling APC causes internal server error
After installing and enabling APC 3.1.9 (Alternate PHP Cache), using pecl, i ran into an internal server error. I checked my error logs, and this is what shows up.
Error Logs:
PHP Fatal error: PHP ...
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Nginx & PHP caching: fastcgi_cache, proxy_cache, APC or memcached or combo?
We have webservers running nginx 7.65 along with fastcgi PHP5 and are looking into caching possibilities to speed up content delivery and lower system loads. The servers run different (custom) ...
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nginx + PHP-FPM = “permission denied” error 13 in nginx log; configuration mistake?
I've got nginx 0.7x + PHP-FPM running under PHP 5.2.10 on one RHEL5 server, but trying to duplicate that setup under the bundled-in PHP-FPM in PHP 5.3.3 on a second server, I'm having some trouble ...
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Nginx + php-fpm “504 Gateway Time-out” error with almost zero load (on a test-server)
After debugging for 6-hours - I am giving this up :|
We have a nginx+php-fpm+mysql in LAN with almost 100 wordpress (created and used by different designers/developers all working on test wordpres ...
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2answers
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Error When Installing PHP5 on IIS6
I am trying to install PHP on my Windows Server 2003 machine that is using IIS6.
I followed this guide for installing it, including using the binaries of fastCGI. I think I did everything correctly, ...
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FastCGI launcher
I need to serve some FCGI scripts (via WSAPI, but that is irrelevant) from nginx.
Currently I'm using spawn_fcgi to do this. This is the only solution I've found.
I need to know my other options. ...
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Where to set “PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS” (lighttpd)
I want to setup the max requests to keep my system RAM from filling up when there is a memory leak.
But I dont know where it is.
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Django VPS Configuration
I'm looking to run some Django sites on my VPS, with nginx acting as a front-end for it. I've been having some issues with mod_python and Apache, the site just starts erroring out whenever the traffic ...
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Nginx + PHP-FPM = “Random” 502 Bad Gateway
I am running Nginx and proxying php requests via FastCGI to PHP-FPM for processing. I will randomly receive 502 Bad Gateway error pages - I can reproduce this issue by clicking around my PHP websites ...
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Nginx + Django + FastCGI WSGI error? (Non fatal)
Hi everyone
I am running django on top of nginx with fastcgi.
When i do runfcgi, I am seeing these errors:
python manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false host=127.0.0.1 port=8000
WSGIServer: missing ...
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Nginx fastcgi problems with django (double slashes in url?)
I'm deploying my first django app. I'm familiar with nginx and fastcgi from deploying php-fpm. I can't get python to recognize the urls. I'm also at a loss on how to debug this further. I'd welcome ...
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2answers
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configuring FastCGI on CentOS with PHP
So I was following this tutorial, but then I was stuck because when running the code:
# yum install spawn-fcgi
it says there is no package. I am using Nginx.
Please suggest
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Why does mod_fastcgi in Apache complain that it does not have permission to create server?
This is a very old FastCGI issue but I have never found a satisfactory answer.
Searching the phrase "(13) permission denied fastcgi can't create server" on Google will show that there's a lot of ...
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1answer
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Mono 2.11 on nginx using fastcgi-mono-server4 will not work
I have mono 2.11 set up with my nginx 1.0.15 webserver running on centos 6.2. I built it from source and xps2, xps4 and fastcgi-mono-server2 work as expected. The problem is when I try and run ...
3
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3answers
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Are there benefits in using CGI in a large scale Apache2 server or should I just use FASTCGI?
I have a web product done in PHP that theoretically should support a lot of users. Problem is, I just left the apache as it is and found out its just running as CGI. Is this very wrong and I should do ...
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Any guide to set values for fastcgi_buffers in Nginx config?
I just moved our blog-network to ngnix (from apache) which is powered by WPMU.
Everything is running smoothly and fine.
During my quest to optimize server to the max level - I came across this thread ...
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What's the optimal way to set up a Django server to serve multiple sites?
I currently use Apache 2.0 and FastCGI to serve my Django sites (I host multiple sites from a single server / IP). Each site has it's own FastCGI process which stops Apache forking multiple copies ...
3
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1answer
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Nginx - Enable PHP for all hosts
I am currently testing out nginx and have set up some virtual hosts by putting configurations for each virtual host in its own file in a folder called sites-enabled.
I then ask nginx to load all ...
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2answers
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nginx fastcgi “Primary script unknown” when configuring userdir
I hate configuring nginx. It's so complicated. How do I get PHP to work in my user dirs? Here's the relevant part of my nginx.conf:
location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ {
autoindex on;
...
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What specifically does FastCGI do (for Ruby, Java, and Python)?
If I have a server running Apache, and I install FastCGI, would that let me run Ruby and Python scripts? If Python is already installed on the server, wouldn't I just be able to add .py to the CGI ...
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Can Nginx handle php (or similar fcgi) requests inside of an alias?
I am converting a legacy Apache server to Nginx and do not have the luxury of changing URL's or rearranging the filesystem.
Is it possible to use nested location{} blocks in the Nginx configuration ...
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1answer
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stopping fastcgi-mono-server gracefully, website content updating with no need to restart it
I've been playing a lot recently with Mono 2.10.5 with .NET 4 and MVC 3 with razor views. I am now hosting my website with nginx and fastcgi-mono-server4 configured. Although the website is still not ...
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How to run PHP files as another user with Apache and FastCGI?
As per older questions, such as using mod_fcgid instead of mod_php and PHP as CGI or Apache Module? (and tangentially some other questions) I came to an understanding that running PHP as CGI or ...
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IIS6 + PHP + FastCGI 500 Errors - Where to start looking?
I've set up IIS6 with FastCGI to use php-cgi.exe.
I have some php websites by external parties, that I'm trying to run in a test environment.
One of the websites just plain gives me a FastCGI Error ...
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Better webserver performance for Python Django: Apache mod_wsgi or Lighttpd fastcgi
I am currently running a high-traffic python/django website using Apache and mod_wsgi. I'm hoping that there's a faster webserver configuration out there, and I've heard a fair number of ...
3
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1answer
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Nginx $document_root$fastcgi_script_name vs $request_filename
I can't notice any difference if in my config file I set
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
Or:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
What do ...
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2answers
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A single php-fastcgi process blocks all other PHP requests
I've recently switched to a FastCGI setup for PHP (Apache2-worker and mod_fcgid).
However, when a single PHP script is very busy, it seems to block all other PHP requests.
What would be wrong with my ...
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2answers
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Why is the response truncated at 16k with php + fastcgi?
I've got PHP 5.3.3 and nginx 0.8.47 compiled from source running a Wordpress blog. The RSS feed generated by Wordpress was getting truncated at roughly 16k (including header was 16k+90b). By adding ...
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nginx 502 bad gateway - fastcgi not listening? (Debian 5)
I have experience with nginx but it's always been pre-installed for me (via VPS.net pre-configured image). I really like what it does for me, and now I'm trying to install it on my own server with ...
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1answer
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Getting correct SERVER_PORT to php-fpm through nginx and varnish
The goal is to get PHP aware of the correct web-facing server_port.
The setup is:
nginx on port 443 reverse proxying to varnish on port 80 reverse proxying to nginx on port 8008 and running php-fpm ...
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nginx: multiple document roots with fastcgi
When using a single document root in my http directive, everything works fine. However, I want to add a location directive with an additional directive and I can't get fastcgi to work with this ...
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'No Input file specified' error - NginX / fcgi - when requesting non-existant .php file
I have NginX serving a drupal site using fcgi. Attempting to browse to a non existent php file (eg. www.example.com/this-file-doesn't-exist.php) results in a white screen with this error:
'No Input ...
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Problem running PHP on IIS6
I have used the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta to install php on IIS6.
I tried this first on a test server with success.
When I did this on the production server and browse to a test php file, I ...
2
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2answers
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Init script & the green [ OK ]
I am trying to install fast-cgi for nginx on an EC2 instance. I followed the steps explained here, but that is meant for Debian and does not work out of the box for a red-hat based system. I modified ...
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nginx projects in subfolders
I'm getting frustrated with my nginx configuration and so I'm asking for help in writing my config file to serve multiple projects from sub-directories in the same root. This isn't virtual hosting as ...
