I have faced this problem and found a relatively simple and robust solution. Here’s how I did it on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) server edition.
Solution was to replace default FastCGI implementation with PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager). PHP-FPM is not supported in PHP out of the box – so if you use PHP 5.2.*, you’ll need to apply a patch and recompile PHP, and if you’re using PHP 5.3.* (at least in 5.3.2 PHP-FPM is not yet in the core) – you’ll need to check out PHP-FPM from PHP SVN.
Let’s start with uninstalling default Ubuntu php packages:
sudo apt-get remove php5*
Now we need to install dependencies. Note, that Ubuntu comes with a new autoconf tool version, which is not compatible with PHP, that’s why for successful compilation you need to temporarily install autoconf2.13 package.
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libmcrypt-dev libxml2-dev libpng-dev autoconf2.13 libevent-dev libltdl-dev
Download latest stable PHP 5.2.13, Suhosin patch, PHP-FPM patch
cd ~/tmp wget http://pl2.php.net/get/php-5.2.13.tar.gz/from/pl.php.net/mirror wget http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-patch-5.2.13-0.9.7.patch.gz wget http://php-fpm.org/downloads/php-5.2.13-fpm-0.5.13.diff.gz tar xvzf php-5.2.13.tar.gz gunzip suhosin-patch-5.2.13-0.9.7.patch.gz gunzip php-5.2.13-fpm-0.5.13.diff.gz cd php-5.2.13 patch -p 1 -i ../php-5.2.13-fpm-0.5.13.diff patch -p 1 -i ../suhosin-patch-5.2.13-0.9.7.patch ./buildconf --force ./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --without-sqlite --disable-pdo make make test sudo make install
Alternatively you can download latest stable PHP 5.3.2, Suhosin patch, apply PHP-FPM patch. Note, that not all PHP based projects and plugins work correctly with new PHP 5.3 – it is not backwards compatible with PHP 5.2. I had troubles at least with some Joomla plugins and ZenCart.
cd ~/tmp http://fi.php.net/get/php-5.3.2.tar.gz/from/this/mirror wget http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-patch-5.3.2-0.9.9.1.patch.gz tar xvzf php-5.3.2.tar.gz gunzip suhosin-patch-5.3.2-0.9.9.1.patch.gz cd php-5.3.2 patch -p 1 -i ../suhosin-patch-5.3.2-0.9.9.1.patch svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/php/php-src/trunk/sapi/fpm sapi/fpm ./buildconf --force ./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --without-sqlite --disable-pdo --disable-reflection make make test sudo make install
Uninstall autoconf2.13 after compilation.
sudo apt-get remove autoconf2.13
Change user and group of php-fpm processes to user and group of your choice (e.g. www-data and www-data) – lines 63 and 66
sudo vim /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf
Edit PHP settings
sudo vim /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini (in Ubuntu 9.xx)
sudo vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini (in Ubuntu 10.04)
Set:
max_execution_time = 30 memory_limit = 128M error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR display_errors = Off log_errors = On error_log = /var/log/php.log register_globals = Off
Now if you haven’t done so yet, install Nginx. Ubuntu 10.04 comes with the latest stable Nginx 0.7.65, so just do:
sudo apt-get install nginx
Now you can congifure your sites, e.g. for WordPress Nginx configuration can look like this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name blog.mysite.com;
access_log /home/user/logs/blog.mysite.com/access.log;
location / {
root /home/user/blog.mysite.com;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# this serves static files that exist without running other rewrite tests
if (-f $request_filename) {
expires 30d;
break;
}
# this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/user/blog.mysite.com/$fastcgi_script_name;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
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