PHP FastCGI/Apache Module Question....

Voltar · 06-18-2006, 06:10 PM

Ok, I have successfully compiled PHP 5.1.4 with MySQL and loads of other stuff. Question is, I want to run Apache 2 and Lighttpd at the same time on the same machine.

Only thing is, Lighttpd uses FastCGI PHP and I've always had an Apache module for PHP.

Now would there be an easy way to do this? If I compiled and installed an Apache module and then just recompiled for the FastCGI and installed would it work? Correctly?

Any thoughts, ideas, comments welcome.

cdhgee · 06-20-2006, 04:12 AM

It sounds like you're over-engineering the solution. Why do you need to run both Apache and Lighttpd at the same time?

Voltar · 06-20-2006, 07:01 PM

Well I have Apache on port 80, and I was going to use Lighttpd on 8080 and only for my web administration scripts. I would use Lighttpd only, but I have scripts that make massive use of .htaccess files and rewrite rules.

cdhgee · 06-21-2006, 12:43 AM

Well, you can use PHP pretty much how you like in Apache - you can either load it as a module or you can access it as a CGI app. I believe that the latter case shouldn't require Apache to be recompiled, you just specify the path to the PHP executable, but I've only ever used PHP as a module so I'm not 100% certain of this. But what you propose sounds like a solution.

Voltar · 06-22-2006, 01:45 PM

Ok, I compiled php for an apache module and installed it then recompile for fastcgi, and installed. I'm not seeing anything go wrong yet, so I'm guessing it's working ok.