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Differences and dis/advanages between: Fast-CGI, CGI, Mod-PHP, SuPHP, PHP-FPM

There are few different php "wrappers"(?). What are differences between them? Tried to google some, but cant seem to find informations. (mod-php is not googleable). Why might I choose one over ...
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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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How long do Apache processes stay alive?

When apache forks a process for mod-php, how long does it stay alive? Does the process die as soon as the response is sent, or will it stay alive until the browser receives the full response?
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How can I use SELinux to confine PHP scripts?

I want to compartmentalize different PHP applications on my SL6.4 (RHEL 6.4 rebuild) web server so that they cannot access each others' data. It seems that SELinux might be able to do this, but I am ...
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What is difference of PHP handler (CGI vs FastCGI vs Mod_PHP vs suPHP )?

I understand that there are four different PHP handlers out there (AFAIK). CGI (php-cgi) FastCGI (php-fpm) Mod_PHP suPHP I need to know the pros and cons of these handler and what environments ...
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Apache 2.4: mod_php vs php-fpm performance

There are plenty of old benchmarks on Apache mod_php vs nginx with php-fpm However, with version 2.4, Apache can use php-fpm. Are there any sensible benchmarks comparing mod_php with php-fpm (both ...
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PHP: gethostbyname() suddenly no longer resolves names to IPs when run in Apache

One of our older legacy servers which gets no further updates or reconfigurations suddenly stopped resolving hostnames to IPs when PHP is executed within Apache. However, it still works fine when ...
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What could cause Apache's time/timezone to change intermittently?

I run a server with some PHP-powered forums (Vanilla 1.1.5a) on it, and I've recently noticed posts going out of order on them. Some digging revealed that Apache seems to be changing the current ...
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Comparing Nginx+PHP-FPM to Apache-mod_php

I'm running Drupal and trying to figure out the best stack to serve it. Apache + mod_php or Nginx + PHP-FPM I used ApacheBench (ab) and Siege to test both setups and I'm seeing Apache performing ...
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mod_spdy problems and speculations

I'm trying out mod_spdy and I've run into a problem - it seems to be incompatible with AJAX requests and mod_php as in this: https://www.modspdy.com/blog/2012/04/15/using-mod_spdy-with-php/ The ...
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Nginx as reverse proxy in front of Apache

Current Setup Single CentOS 6 VPS with 6G memory running apache 2.2, mariadb & PHP via FastCGI. Server has mostly wordpress sites, but also has some other PHP based sites. Right now we are not ...
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When does main www/mod_php5 port get updated?

I haven't been able to find any info regarding this anywhere while burying through the thousands of results I have been getting concerning php5 so here goes. We have several FreeBSD 9.2 machines and ...
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How can Django/WSGI and PHP share / on Apache?

I have a server running an established PHP site, as well as some Django apps. Currently, a VirtualHost set up for PHP listens on port 80, and requests to certain directories are proxied to a ...
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Running mod_php and suPHP same time

I recently went from Debian Lenny with 5.2.x and was able to use mod_php for any php files that were not located in /home/ and suPHP for all the php files that were located in /home/. I did this ...
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Own server, multiple website: most secure PHP setup

We have a company server with a variety of websites. They are maintained by different people from within our company. All websites are public. The server access is limited to our company only. This is ...
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Using both mod_php(Apache) and php-fpm(nginx) in one server

Is it possible to use Apache+mod_php and nginx+php-fpm in same server? I know these two servers can NOT share same port, but is it possible to run two different PHP modules in one server? I'm ...
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httpd memory usage (Apache/2.4.16 (Amazon))

I'm running an apache server (default configuration, mod_php) on an amazon linux VM with just 1G of RAM. There are two kinds of php applications running: memory heavy ones that are executed not so ...
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How to run mod_php and fastcgi side-by-side?

How would it be possible to run certain scripts (this could be in either a vhost or directory setting in the apache conf) to run as mod_php when the current server configuration is running FPM/FastCGI?...
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php-fpm process running when using mod_php

I've been having some out of memory issues. Pretty much there after tuning Apache but I have noticed something odd when analyzing memory usage. php-fpm is running in the background when, as far as I ...
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How to reduce Nginx tasks running under php-fpm?

What is Apache's mod_php equivalent in Nginx? I have Nginx with php-fpm. Everything is perfect but the problem is that it works like fcgi in Apache not mod_php. This means that a task is added for ...
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forbid custom php config settings on apache 2.2 + mod_php server

I have a server where php is running as an apache module. Every user on the server is restricted to his own directory with open_basedir. I have disabled the following functions: disable_functions = ...
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Need to determine how php files are being rendered in a LAMP configuration (CGI, FastCGI, or mod-php)

How do I determine how our php files are being rendered in a simple LAMP configuration? phpinfo shows: -- Configure Command -- --enable-force-cgi-redirect --enable-fastcgi -- Server API -- CGI/...
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Re: How can Django/WSGI and PHP share / on Apache?

in response to: How can Django/WSGI and PHP share / on Apache? Hello, could you please post the complete config file from /sites-available I am having a problem seems like rewrite engine redirects ...
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Vagrant & Puppetlabs/apache setting two MPM's

Currently I'm attempting to update my Vagrant machine with Puppet modules to PHP7, and ofcourse, with updated modules. However since updating the puppetlabs/apache module to version 3.0.0, it is ...
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mod_wsgi and mod_php running together - possible?

Is it possible to run apache with mod_wsgi and mod_php running together to serve python and php pages? If so where can I find info on doing this?
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Debian apache2 is not executing php scripts, instead it's showing the source

I know this is probably most discussed topic online, I did search here and stackexchange and tried various answers but none of them seems to be working for me, hence why I am posting this. I have a ...
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Give PHP a fake request URL and protocol with Apache2 and mod_php

I run a web server with multiple users. The machine provides Apache-based virtual hosts to a bunch of users, who can serve static content or use PHP. No other forms of server-side scripting are ...
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amazon ec2-medium apache requests per second terrible

EDITED -- test running from localhost now to rule out network... i have a c1.medium using EBS. when i do an apache benchmark and i'm just printing a "hello" for the test from localhost - no database ...
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Apache 2.2.16 with mod_php on Debian Squeeze CPU high load

Configuration: CPU 16 cores 14 GB RAM Apache 2.2.16 PHP 5.3.3-7 with enabled APC Apache mpm config: StartServers 50 MinSpareServers 50 MaxSpareServers 256 ...
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(Serving PHP) Does Apache2 will create new thread on every connection?

Based on many online sources, in serving static files, Apache2 will create new thread on every different connection... results in resource hungry But how about serving PHP through Apache2 (mod_php, ...
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Apache with mod_php high memory utilization

We have Magento application deployed on Apache with mod_php and mysql. I have observed that sometime apache server starts consuming high memory which causes memory swapping and results in high load on ...
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mod_php is not installed on CentOS 7 with remi's php 5.4 - a bit of confusion

I have a fresh installation on CentOS 7 with httpd and following remi's wizard I installed php 5.4 as single version (I know it's old, but part of my requirements !!). My problem is that httpd cannot ...
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Is it possible to find information on apache_mod_php processes under /proc?

I have an apache2 server with apache2_mod_php installed. Is there a way for me to determine from the information under /proc (or elsewhere), which apache processes are currently executing the php ...
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Varnish backend slow-start

The situation: I'm using Varnish in front of some heavy loaded mod-php apache servers. When a cold (empty xcache, cold template cache) apache gets started, the server may overload because of too many ...
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Apache becomes unconnectable after certain time?

After maybe ~20 minutes it seems like my apache server becomes unconnectable. By unconnectable, I mean if I curl any page, it just results in nothing for 2-3 minutes and then nothing ever shows up. I'...
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Changing Php's Handler Name

On my apache server I'd like to run multiple versions of PHP concurrently so that I can easily switch between them depending on the needs of the project. I noticed that some shared hosting providers ...
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Does PHP take advantage of APC if run as apache module with prefork?

I have installed APC, but I am not observing as big an impact on performance as I expected. Actually, I'm not sure I'm observing any benefit, though maybe it's just because the cpu time spent in ...
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Effect of PHP memory limit on Apache2 workers [closed]

As you would have guessed I have a server setup with mod_php and Apache2 (prefork) with APC . The site receives decent amount of traffic daily and on highest being 280-290 users at the same time. A ...
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Apache prefork vs. workder - what is wrong with my settings?

I have installed PHP as an Apache module. I have had prefork running all this while. I've read that worker would consume less memory while offer higher performance]1. So, I've edited /etc/sysconfig/...
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Always using eAccelerator

If eAccelerator uses an opcode cache for PHP requests, then why don't all companies employ this on their production servers? Is there a reason why Apache/PHP/mod_php doesn't bundle it with their ...
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How do you serve php files located outside of the apache folders

I've just installed phpMyAdmin at /usr/share/phpMyAdmin on a CentOS 5 machine running webmin / virtualmin. I have also added an alias to the apache config, being the following line: Alias /phpMyAdmin ...
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How can I install both mod-perl2 and mod-php5 on Ubuntu?

From Ubuntu's package libary, I find the two modules I need. However: mod-perl2 requires apache2-mpm-worker mod-php5 requires apache2-mpm-prefork The two apache modules are mutually exclusive and ...
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how i can know mod_php5.c name

first see this problem <IfModule !mod_php5.c> <FilesMatch "\.php$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Allow from none </FilesMatch> RewriteBase / </...
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Apache + PHP with mod_php No timeout

I am actually working on Apache server 2.4 with PHP 8.2 (mod_php) & debian 11.2 Recently I sent a HTTP Request with more than 100 seconds without a timeout. This request executed a large MySQL ...
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$_POST is empty when obtaining in "ErrorDocument 404" (nginx + apache + mod_php)

I try to transfer website from old server to new, and stucked with one problem. PHP/JS code on both servers is the same, but on new server it is not working - $_POST data are empty in AJAX-request. ...
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Apache+mod_php so slow

I have a problem setting up my Apache server with mod_php. I have a website whose index.php page is generated in ~200ms. But Apache serves it in about 1.5sec. Why is this slowdown taking place? If ...
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How to debug strange HTTP/PHP server behavior (garbled text in some files)

This is a weird one. I'm administering a FreePBX server using their standard CentOS 7 based distribution running in a virtual machine. Every so often (usually a few months in between occurrences), ...
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Apache 2.4 w/ PHP 7: PHP7.1-FPM and/or libapache2-mod-fastcgi

I am in the process of upgrading a web server from using the slower, resource-intensive mod_php, and all has been well, until I noticed that PHP 7.1 is running successfully using only the php7.1-fpm ...
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Apache mod_filter + PHP (mod_php)

I'm trying to configure my server to automatically insert a tracking code (Piwik) to all pages served. I'm using both static sites and some PHP sites. I've used the following method found on Piwik ...
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