[CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

Sat Dec 18 00:09:44 UTC 2010
Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com>

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

I am trying to figure out what's the best way of setting up PHP.  The
standard mod_php seems to not be a good solution, as it requires apache
to be in the prefork configuration, due to PHP not being thread safe.

Something like mod_fcgi seems to be the way to go, but I can't seem to
find a good guide on setting it up.

I installed Zend Server, but seems like they are only supporting FastCGI
for Apache on Windows, and only mod_php on Linux.

Their admin control panel is using lighttpd and mod_fcgi on Linux.  I
getting it to work with Apache, but am having issues with the missing
mysqli libraries.

Is it recommended to use mod_fcgi on CentOS?  Is there a way to get it
to work with Zend Server?

If not, should I try to get things working with lighttpd?  I'm not sure
how easy it would be to set up a config to work with Drupal.

Russ



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