Installing the FPM You’ll need to be running PHP 5.3 or above. The IUS repository offers these packages for RHEL and CentOS. PHP 5.3 and 5.4 have reached end of [ … ]

PHP-FPM Process Managers Introduction When looking into issues or configuration of php-fpm, its best to first understand the 3 process managers the php-fpm can use. A lot of the time [ … ]

Caveats: Bandwidth for all the backends is limited by the bandwidth of the reverse proxies. A single instance big enough to handle the traffic of all thebweb nodes might be [ … ]

 Basic Virtual Host Configuration server { listen 80; server_name example.com www.example.com; root /var/www/vhosts/example.com; access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com-access.log main; error_log /var/log/nginx/example.com-error.log warn; index index.php index.html index.htm; } Notes To make a VirtualHost the [ … ]

Selective PHP-FPM Pools An advanced php-fpm use case is multiple pools for a single domain. One scenario where this could be useful is load balanced servers with lsyncd. Since file [ … ]

When creating a new server for a client that wants to run Nginx, you’ll need to adapt the virtual host configuration to properly serve requests. After modification the server block [ … ]

Overview As Nginx does not have an equivalent to Apache’s mod_php, we need to use PHP-FPM to handle PHP interpretation. Nginx is then configured to proxy requests matching *.php to [ … ]

Installation RHEL/CentOS # vim /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo [nginx-stable] name=nginx stable repo baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key [nginx-mainline] name=nginx mainline repo baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/centos/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key Now you can install the service and configure it [ … ]

Introduction PHP-FPM Pools PHP-FPM’s architecture involves a parent process, running as root, that spins up “pools” of child processes. To illustrate, here is ps output with 2 pools: # ps [ … ]

Nginx and PHP-FPM Prerequisites Installation of Nginx Installation of PHP-FPM Basic configuration of Nginx Basic configuration of PHP-FPM Basic configuration in Nginx Using upstream to define our PHP-FPM socket Within [ … ]