FastCGI spawing with NGiNX

[mejason69]

Been dabbling with Joomla and followed this guide from how to forge to get my hands dirty. http://www.howtoforge.com/running-jo...e-ubuntu-11.10

Was hoping that someone can help me out with setting up FastCGI spawning. The how to forge article seems to spawn a single instance of FastCGI at boot time. This concerned me since NGiNX can spawn multiple workers depending on what you set in the conf and you may end up with a bottleneck under load if you have a single FastCGI process handling all the requests from those workers. After doing some digging I found the following (http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample). The code is more complex but appears to spawn FastCGI as needed up to the limit that I set.

Can someone point me as to the "correct" way to do this, I am leaning toward the NGiNX wiki.

Thanks

[falko]

You don't use PHP-FPM, right?

[mejason69]

Checked and package not installed.....

Originally Posted by falko

You don't use PHP-FPM, right?

[falko]

Do you use Debian or Ubuntu? For recent Ubuntu versions, there's a PHP-FPM package, while there isn't for Debian Squeeze.

[mejason69]

After your previous post I started to look into php5-fpm and found this and this. I think I am going to try adding the dotdeb repo for squeeze and use their packages for nginx and php5-fpm in a test vm and see how it goes. If that seems flaky then I am going to try the solution from the nginx forums that somehow seems like the next best solution.

Thanks for your input....