Hello, I'd like to switch our current PHP setup on gudrun to use php-fpm. This also means switching back from fcgid to mod_fastcgi as that is missing something like FastCGIExternalServer; see http://httpd.markmail.org/message/pnj6pkxjmulrt3vo?q=php-fpm PHP-FPM is a process manager that comes with PHP since 5.3.3. The benefits are: * independent of the webserver. (restart apache or php without interfering the other) * graceful reload of php without loosing requests * APC will work more efficient as the cache is shared. (atm each process has its own cache which also breaks FluxBB somehow) * It can manage different pools dynamically run by different users and settings * hopefully simpler server setup Each apache vhost needs to be pointed to its corresponding php pool like this: FastCGIExternalServer /srv/http/php-fpm -socket /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php Action application/x-httpd-php /php-fpm A pool configuration could look like this: [wiki] listen = /var/run/php-fpm/$pool-fpm.sock listen.owner = http listen.group = http listen.mode = 0660 user = php-$pool group = php-$pool pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 20 pm.start_servers = 5 pm.min_spare_servers = 2 pm.max_spare_servers = 5 pm.max_requests = 800 php_admin_value[open_basedir] = /srv/http/vhosts/$pool.archlinux.de/:/usr/bin/diff3:/usr/bin/diff:/usr/share/file/magic.mgc php_admin_value[session.save_path] = /srv/http/vhosts/$pool.archlinux.de/sessions php_admin_value[upload_tmp_dir] = /srv/http/vhosts/$pool.archlinux.de/uploads Any ideas or objections? (Maybe some day I also get the chroot feature working) Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre