Mod_php Vs. Fastcgi
Jul 6, 2009
I'm looking at optimizing our dynamic content delivery process and there are some interesting claims regarding fastcgi vs. mod_php.
What I am wondering about is assuming apache serving ONLY php content, why would fastcgi perform any better than mod_php? The memory footprint of spawned workers exists in both solutions.
Wouldn't context switches and buffering in fastcgi actually lower performance?
What could be gained by using a different web server (nginx/lighty) ? The primary bottleneck would still be physical memory (assuming <255 workers) ?
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Jan 6, 2008
I installed FastCGI and configured it via fcgiconfig.js using this command
cscript fcgiconfig.js -add -section:"PHP" -extension:php -path:"C:PHPphp-cgi.exe"
It configured fcgiext.ini and added the .php extension to the sites and what not.
When accessing a php script, I get the following error though:
FastCGI Error
The FastCGI Handler was unable to process the request.
Error Details:The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly
Error Number: -2147467259 (0x80004005).
Error Description: Unspecified error
HTTP Error 500 - Server Error.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
I did not do anything special with the PHP. It is the zip 5.2.5 from the site. I configured php.ini and move it to c:/windows. I granted IUSR permission on php-cgi.exe
Am I missing something? I followed the guide here
Windows 2003 / IIS6 / PHP 5.2.5
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Jun 23, 2009
Here is the comparison between Apache and Nginx. Request processing overhead and real-world application performance measurements included.
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Feb 24, 2007
I decided to stick with mod_php for my shared server. What I'm looking for is any info/links on best security implementations for mod_php.
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Oct 16, 2007
When cpanel has apache 2.2 available. I am planning on switching my servers over to it and to SuPHP from mod_php. There are hundreds of accounts on my different servers and I am worried about the transition. I know cpanel has a permission conversion script, but I dont completely trust it. The biggest issue to me though, is all the users that have php_values and flags in their htaccess files that would then be needed converted to php.ini's. Has anyone created a conversion script for doing this in an automated fashion?
I might not even convert my full servers to this and just do with the partial ones (less than 25%), but I really think it would benefit the customers and myself with the nice added layer of protection of suphp.
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Jan 21, 2007
I'm running a shared hosting environment and I'd like to know if it's even possible to secure the Apache while it's running mod_php. I know I could go suPHP with PHP-CGI, but that'd increase drastically the server load.
So what should I do to best secure the server?
So far now I did:
- Apache:
Installed mod_security and mod_evasive.
- PHP:
Set register_globals=OFF
Set disable_functions = ini_restore, popen, exec, shell_exec, system, passthru, proc_open, proc_close
Set safemode=ON
Set open_basedir to user's directory on virtualhost
Is that would be a secure environment for my users?
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Jul 1, 2007
I already have php successfully compiled as apache modules but not the fastCGI version, i just trying to compile with the following setting, but weird, could not get the php-cgi binary out of it, only the apache module :
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2/php --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/php --enable-wddx --enable-trans-sid --enable-dio --enable-sysvsem --enable-mbstring --enable-ftp --enable-versioning --enable-force-cgi-redirect --enable-so --enable-inline-optimization --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-memory-limit --enable-sockets --enable-track-vars --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-zlib=/usr --with-xmlrpcb --with-gettext --with-xml --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --with-dom-exslt --with-openssl --with-bz2 --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-iconv=/usr/local --with-curl --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-pear --with-readline --with-gd --with-freetype2=/usr/include/freetype2/freetype --with-freetype-dir --enable-gd-imgstrttf --enable-gd-native-tt --enable-fastcgi --disable-debug
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May 23, 2007
I was wondering whether anyone can help me, I'm having some major performance problems running PHP on IIS using Shane Caraveo's php_fcgi.dll
PHP: 5.1.1.
IIS: 6
Basically I'm getting to the point where the isapi requests jump rapidly to 400+ requests from a meagre 2 -5 requests. Given the high number of requests this is essentially bringing the server to a standstill.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can begin getting to the bottom of this either through network monitoring or application debugging?
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Sep 6, 2007
installing PHP fastcgi on my Centos VPS. I have already Googled for this and tried most of the tutorials but nothing seems to work.
I have already compiled PHP with --enabled-fastcgi. What I ca't figure out is what to put in my .htaccess file.
Almost every tutorial on this compes up with a different way and none of these seem to work for me.
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Apr 1, 2009
what do you prefer?
fastcgi or suphp?
which one is better with suexec (in security and resource usage)?
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May 2, 2009
Should we not be using PHPSuExec with FastCGI?
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Aug 13, 2008
i'm using fastcgi for PHP app. i have 5 sites on my server but fastcgi works only one site which is the first opened if you open second site iis give me error like "HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error
C:PHPphp-cgi.exe - The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly". i restart iis and open another site firstly it works but again another site give me error.
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Dec 7, 2007
I've already posted this over at the vBulletin forums and with their tech support team, but so far no one has been able to find a solution. Someone suggested I post here as well.
I am currently running vB using PHP 4.3.9 with Zend WinEnabler on a windows 2003 server. I have a seperate database server and a web server. This current configuration works fine, but I am moving to an upgraded web server and this is where the problems start.
Due to intermitant issues with Zend WinEnabler (now a discontinued product) I wanted to move to the latest version of PHP (5.2.5 NTS) and Microsoft FastCGI. The problem is that I am getting blank pages when clicking the Today's Post link from the top menu and immediately following the submission of a new post. I've gone through all of the vBulletin listed suggestions about trouble shooting blank pages and none apply.
Because I have a seperate database sever, I am accessing the same database with the new server vB configuration I am migrating to. As such I suspect the issue has to be related to web server given there are no issues on the current live site and the only changes are the PHP version and acceleration app.
If anyone has some suggestions, please let me know. I am running out of time on my server migration window before I am going to be billed for two servers.
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Aug 28, 2007
I try to enable register globals for a specific domain using htscanner and .htaccess (php runs as fastcgi). My phpinfo page says that register globals are On but they don't work.
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Jun 20, 2009
Just moved to a 1and1 managed server in which FastCGI is enabled.
But I'm having problems getting Movable Type to run under fastcgi - which has never been a problem before, even on shared hosts.
Is there a 'hello world'-type test for fastcgi - so I can check if it is enabled?
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Dec 17, 2008
I have just switched from mod_php to fastcgi + suexec, but now trying to use the ab command times out :
ab -n 10000 -c 100 [url]
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, [url]
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, [url]
Benchmarking www.example.com (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 3000 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 6000 requests
Completed 7000 requests
apr_poll: The timeout specified has expired (70007)
Total of 7422 requests completed
Then I get a bunch of emails from LFD ....
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Jan 31, 2008
I recently changed one of my development servers from suPHP to FastCGI. I will admit, FastCGI is much quicker at PHP page generation and the system seems much more responsive.
However, I am looking into how FastCGI differs from suPHP in terms of security. Both run as a form of CGI outside of Apache itself -- which in theory is more secure. However, suPHP prevented users from setting insecure permissions (for instance, the max for files was 644, and for folders it was 755) -- something which FastCGI does not appear to do (although it could due to how it runs as a user).
Does anyone have any comments on this? Is there a way to force these same restrictions via FastCGI?
Also, any other comments in regards to the security of FastCGI vs. suPHP? I have run numerous searches and I don't seem to be able to find much. Google just returns a bunch of providers whose 'customers' are celebrating due to the provider choosing to implement FastCGI.
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Jan 22, 2007
I have a server running Apache 2 with PHP as an Apache module. There are a few php scripts that use lots of cpu when they run and have lots of hits, but Apache is still running fine and pages and php scripts load pretty fast. I was just wondering if running PHP as fastcgi would use less cpu or make php scripts load faster.
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Nov 13, 2014
I setup PHP support to Run as FastCGi Application, and i setup the memory_limit=32M in DOMAIN/etc/php.ini, then i create a php program with ini_set('memory_limit','128M'), it does not according to my settings are limited. How can i limit it , only just use the disable_function = 'ini_set' ? or Was there other methods ? Because, When PHP runs as apache module , i can use the php_admin_value in vhost.conf to limit what i want , it does not limit everything like this (disable_function).
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Apr 13, 2015
I've a new installation of Plesk 12 on a VPS (Ubuntu LTS12.04) and when FastCGI is selected it downloads the PHP files instead of parsing the PHP? Where to look config wise? I've checked php short tag options and they all seem fine.I've set up a test subscription to display the error here: URL....
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Apr 23, 2015
In my Plesk 12.0, I installed support por PHP 5.3, and 5.4. But when I go to configure my site, I only can select these versions if I put PHP like FastCGI:
But in "Apache Module" I only can select PHP 5.3.3:
My WebSite doesn't work with FastCGI, only with "Module Apache".
Why I cannot select 5.3.29 with "Module Apache".
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Mar 23, 2009
I trun on php5 as DSO and anything will be okay, but if I trun on php5 as fcgi, server will down and log show this section
Code:
Mar 18 21:28:58 s2 kernel: php5[22526]: segfault at 000000000000000f rip 00002b84a9b98aac rsp 00007fff015e8290 error 4
Mar 18 21:28:58 s2 kernel: php5[22528]: segfault at 000000000000000f rip 00002b9f0453aaac rsp 00007fffa6c44a70 error 4
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May 21, 2008
I've got a server with FastCGI that at random produces 500 internal server errors. In the specific account the errors are as follows in the error_log:
[Wed May 21 12:01:29 2008] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" aborted: (first read) idle timeout (30 sec)
[Wed May 21 12:01:29 2008] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper"
As you can see this unfortunately does not tell me anything.
Now viewing the apache error_log I see this
Code:
[Wed May 21 12:51:11 2008] [warn] FastCGI: scheduled the restart of the last (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" process: reached dynamicMaxClassProcs (10)
[Wed May 21 12:51:11 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (uid 514, gid 515) restarted (pid 20510)
[Wed May 21 12:52:00 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (pid 20510) termination signaled
[Wed May 21 12:52:00 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (pid 20510) terminated by calling exit with status '0'
[Wed May 21 12:57:02 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (pid 20501) termination signaled
[Wed May 21 12:57:02 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (pid 20501) terminated by calling exit with status '0'
[Wed May 21 13:02:03 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (pid 20491) termination signaled
[Wed May 21 13:02:03 2008] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/user/php-wrapper" (pid 20491) terminated by calling exit with status '0'
All warnings so I'm assuming these don't mean anything.
Here's the php-wrapper:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
PHPRC=/usr/local/lib
export PHPRC
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=8
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=500
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
Not a particularly well setup system for users and such but it worked for the user.
The software versions are as follows:
Apache 2.2.8 with Suexec on the FCGI
FastCGI (Latest stable and also tried a CVS version)
PHP 5.2.6
64 bit system
how to go about debugging this?
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May 21, 2013
I am using Apache 2.4.1 (Win64), PHP 5.3.10 on Microsoft Windows 2008 server. I have also installed Microsoft VC++ 2010 (64 bit). I successfully configured mod_fcgid 2.3.7 as per the instructions. This was confirmed by running info php page. But when I run FastCGI test scripts, the output is displayed in text form and not in html format.
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Jul 3, 2014
I have:
Debian 7.5
Plesk 12.0.18
In the hosting setting i have selected:
PHP support (Run PHP as FastCGI application , PHP version 5.4.4)
The web instead of interpreted php makes me do the download of a file. How can I fix?
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Oct 24, 2014
Where the file that holds PHP fastcgi configuration is located. I was told its here but it's not
/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf.
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May 31, 2015
I've been working on a project that I am trying to utilize some of the new functions from PHP 5.5 so I changed the PHP version from 5.3 to 5.5 on this domain, but I am getting a 500 error. I've found this kb: [URL] .... which is my exact issue, but the resolution doesn't work for me.
All of the permissions are set right, all of the modules are compiled and registered correctly, but I'm still getting a 500 error.
From error_log:
Code:
[Sun May 31 20:32:31 2015] [warn] [client] (104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server
[Sun May 31 20:32:31 2015] [error] [client] Premature end of script headers: adduser-exec.php
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php_handlers_control --list :
[Code] ....
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Jan 24, 2014
I have Plesk 11.0.9 From Godaddy.
I have a problem in PHP Errors Log/Display in PHP 5.4.15 FastCGI
In my configuration "C:Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskAdditionalPleskPHP54php.ini"
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
display_errors = On
display_startup_errors = On
log_errors = On
log_errors_max_len = 1024
In my Plesk Web Panel Settings For the domain
error_reporting 32767 <- For 5.4.x
display_errors on
log_errors on
I made a PHP error in test file
Code:
<?php
echo eeeee;
?>
It should give me error in line 2 [ Display & Log ] the error. but it don't do anyone of them it gave me 500 Internal Server Error and it's not logging the error to the directories
C:inetpubvhostsDomain.comstatisticslogs
OR
C:Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskadminlogsphp_error.log
C:Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskadminlogsphp_error.log <--- Successfully logging Errors Like
[14-Dec-2013 13:12:07 UTC] rrdtool execution failed: ERROR: fetching cdp from rra
But don't logging the websites errors....
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