CentOS - Mar 2011 - Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx

Hi,

Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php
scripts?

Care to share thoughts and caveats?

I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life
limitations, diferences to apache, which repo to fetch etc.
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On 3/11/2011 12:54 PM, robert mena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php
> scripts?
>
> Care to share thoughts and caveats?
>
> I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life
> limitations, diferences to apache, which repo to fetch etc.
What problem are you trying to solve with apache?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com

On 03/11/2011 10:54 AM, robert mena wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php
> scripts?
> 
> Care to share thoughts and caveats?
> 
> I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life
> limitations, diferences to apache, which repo to fetch etc.
First off let me say that nginx is awesome. If you are running a LAMP
stack and cannot use fastcgi with apache then you can put nginx in front
of apache to handle static content requests. Result is dramatic decrease
in memory footprint since you can reduce the number of concurrent apache
procs. Nginx uses a more efficient request handling so you can serve
thousands of clients in under 100MB. I think you can also use fastcgi
with nginx. I haven't done it.

Apache can achieve similar efficiencies with the alternate mpm models
i.e. not prefork.
-- 
Mark D. Foster <mark at foster.cc>
http://mark.foster.cc/

>> Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php
scripts?
>> Care to share thoughts and caveats?
 
Yes, we use nginx + PHP and also apache + nginx + PHP extensively and it works
well.

You can also look at lighttpd + PHP as another alternative that works well.

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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Geoff Galitz <geoff at galitz.org>
wrote:
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>>> Anyone here using?Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to
php
>>> scripts?
>>> Care to share thoughts and caveats?
>
> Yes, we use nginx + PHP?and also apache + nginx + PHP extensively and it
> works well.
>
> You can also look at lighttpd + PHP as another alternative that works well.
>
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You could also have a look at Hiawatha. The developer claims it's been
built with PHP in mind.

http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/