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Comment on FastCGI with a PHP APC Opcode Cache by Eric

Eric — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:12:39 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tutorial !

I’ve lost some hours trying to figure why my apc cache was restarted every request (apc.php show me uptime 0 and the start time was always the current time.)

It was because I wrote “FastCgiConfig …” line after the line “FastCgiWrapper on” in the config …

Perhaps this tip will help some people

Comment on FastCGI with a PHP opcode cache benchmarks by sina

sina — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:52:13 +0000

Thanks again, I think i’m justified to give it a try on one of my servers.
I’ll let you know if i succeed

Comment on FastCGI with a PHP APC Opcode Cache by sina

sina — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:46:03 +0000

Excellent article Brandon, Thanks.
I can wait to read your next article about benchmarks

Comment on Installing Gentoo 2008.0 amd64 on a Linode VPS by Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:14:48 +0000

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Comment on FastCGI with a PHP APC Opcode Cache by Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:29:38 +0000

This is still the method I use. On some boxes I run the fastcgi php processes externally via a process watcher such as daemontools, but it’s still the same general idea.

Typical shared hosting providers oversell which would prohibit them from dedicating the ram needed to support opcode caches per user. I’m sure some companies are doing it, but I can’t imagine it will ever be the “norm”.

Comment on FastCGI with a PHP APC Opcode Cache by joshua

joshua — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:20:55 +0000

@Brandon I know this post was written a while ago. Do you have any updates to add or is this still the defacto method? Seems in 2010 this should have been figured out without jumping thru hoops. A shared hosting enviro should be secure and utilize a opcode. Hard to believe there is not an out of the box setup.

Comment on Using Doctrine 1.1 with Symfony 1.2 by cloudsrv

cloudsrv — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:04:54 +0000

Mariano

Comment on Using Doctrine 1.1 with Symfony 1.2 by cloudsrv

cloudsrv — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:43:53 +0000

Nice one… did not know that. thx

Comment on FastCGI with a PHP APC Opcode Cache by João Santana

João Santana — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:31:18 +0000

Thanks Brandon, was needing this for a small ubuntu server and it’s working as it should.

It’s worth to mention the fact that I learnt the hard-way (meaning pulling my hair out for a couple of hours) that the ScriptAlias directive on apache .conf had to be commented out in case it exists or else I was having a 404 error to an incorrect cgi path when i clicked on any .php file.

Thx again.

Comment on FastCGI with a PHP APC Opcode Cache by Jason Williams

Jason Williams — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:04:39 +0000

Hi Brandon,

Just wanted to echo the thanks of others here as I now have APC+FastCGI setup as you described, and it’s working a treat.

I had a few gotcha’s to contend with along the way as is only natural with different flavours of Linux. Now working great under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Thanks again.