So, I need to run multiple php apps/sites on one server. One or many should run using apache and mod_php5, and one or many should be able to run using mod_fastcgi and php-fpm. The mod_php5 ones are...

The administrator has installed Xdebug 2.1.1 in our shared PHP 5.3.0 server in order to use its debugger. Now, I can hardly read the stack traces of uncatched exceptions because they are formatted ...

I've been looking for days to see if someone has done a good, documented, PHP processing speed comparison between apache-mpm-prefork 2.4 with mod_php 5.4 and nginx 1.2.x + PHP-FPM 5.4 Why ...

I had such question some months ago. Now to isolate the problem I tried a new approach. I put an empty file to my server. File name is "foobar.php". Its content is as follows: <?php echo "hell...

I have basic idea about running PHP in different configurations like mod_php, cgi, FastCGI, etc. In my findings and test I found FastCGI is slightly better. I like FastCGI's support for SuEXEC mos...

I have been trying to understand the exact meaning/purpose of loading php as an apache module vs the rest. When php is installed as an apache module, what exactly happens? For example, does readin...

Basically, I'm trying to figure out how PHP can be called from a "web server". I've read the documentation, but it didn't help much. As far as I can tell, there are three ways to invoke PHP: vi...

The Server I have a development server that I'm using to host my current projects. Here are some stats: root@myserver:/usr/bin $ cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10 DISTRIB...

Does anyone know if it is possible to detect whether the browser has closed the connection during the execution of a long PHP script, when using apache and mod_php? For example, in Java, the HttpO...

E.g. Is it more secure to use mod_php instead of php-cgi? Or is it more secure to use mod_perl instead of traditional cgi-scripts? I'm mainly interested in security concerns, but speed might be an...