--- Scott Lamb <slamb at slamb.org> wrote: > Another option would be to use mod_fcgid to delegate to different PHP > instances using FastCGI. FastCGI is popular lately (particularly with > the Ruby-on-Rails people) for other reasons - asynchronous webservers > like lighttpd and nginx have started to become trendy, and because > PHP is not written asynchronously they have no mod_php equivalent. > > The biggest advantage to using FastCGI here would be to reduce the > number of processes running and memory footprint. As Paul Heinlein > said, this proxied Apache setup would mean doubling the number of > Apache processes running. Here you just have a few PHP processes > running per vhost to handle the dynamic stuff - static files can be > handled by the main server. Presumably a FastCGI PHP process would > have less of a memory footprint than a whole Apache also. >From the various howtos and docs, this, plus suexec seems like the option I want. However, I don't see a package for fastcgi in base or rpmforge.. Can mod_cgid provide similar functionality? Or do I really want to compile mod_fastcgi (presumably from http://fastcgi.com/?) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com