On 12/17/10 9:30 AM, Cia Watson wrote:

I've never actually configured php, I just install the files (including php-mbstring), and create a user for mysql and extract the Drupal files to the docroot and I'm good to go. If it's a high-traffic site others may have more specifics about php to add... for me the defaults have worked fine. HTH.

drupal really hammers on your database too. you need a well tuned and optimized mysql or postgres configuration to run it, and you likely want to use some form of SQL cache (memcached etc), since drupal will make the same queries over and over and over again.

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This is not FOSS stuff, but something like ioncube might help you speed things up.

http://www.ioncube.com/comments.php

HTH

You can also use xCache, we've had dramatsic performance improvement with it. From .12 s page load tome to 0.007 for some case. It was not druppal, but our own code tough.

Is there a how-to somewhere on getting php running with nginx? I would love to get that working.

I am already planning on using nginx as a front end to varnish for compression, and varnish for caching and load balancing. I just really want to get good performance out of the dynamic php part and mod_php isn't it. I considered using quercus for a while, but it doesn't seem to work properly with drupal.

Russ On Dec 17, 2010 7:43 PM, "Rainer Duffner" rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:

Am 18.12.2010 um 01:09 schrieb Ruslan Sivak:

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I am looking to set up a CentOS server for hosting a high traffic PHP site (specifically Drupal 6).

AFAIK, the optimal solution is to run the latest php5.3-series as php- fpm with NGINX. It offers the best performance for the dynamic part.

If you got it working, research about using varnish http cache in front of Drupal.

High-traffic sites with Drupal require significant effort and a deep understanding of the inner workings of Drupal and the modules and extensions you use.

And unless there's repository out there that has all this for CentOS, it may not be the right platform.

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Am 18.12.2010 um 02:12 schrieb Ruslan Sivak:

Is there a how-to somewhere on getting php running with nginx? I would love to get that working.

You need to compile php with fpm support. Then, in nginx, you basically say:

server { listen *:80; server_name www.domain.com;

location / { root /home/domain/FTPROOT/htdocs; index index.php index.htm index.html;

# if file exists return it right away if (-f $request_filename) { break; }

if ($request_uri ~ '^/(typo3(/|conf|temp)| fileadmin|uploads|t3lib|clear.gif|index.php|favicon.ico)') { break; } # otherwise rewrite it; if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php last; # rewrite .* /index.php last; break; }

}

# if the request starts with our frontcontroller, pass it on to fastcgi location ~ .php$ { fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm-domain.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /htdocs $fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name; include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /htdocs/ ; } }

The php-fpm mailinglist is a good start for question regarding this topic. I don't know about memcache, but it's surely a good idea.

With varnish, you have to be very careful because it doesn't cache sites with cookies. Different drupal-modules and extensions will create their own cookies and so almost nothing will cache.

Probably, the people at http://groups.drupal.org/nginx

know more about this than me anyway.

Rainer