Hello LQ users. This is my fist LQ post & topic.

I want to ask you about nginx+apache web-server scheme.
Is is nessesary to make such configuration? Or single nginx + php in cgi mode will be the same?

Maybe you can show some comparing statistics of Nginx+apache and nginx alone.

Nginx + lighttpd is a more common approach...

Statistics are easy to find on Google, but you'll soon realize that it is more a matter of type of content provided and, well, a matter of (concurrent) connections..

If you're unsure, it's best to choose one of these two (nginx or lighttpd) and use them along with php-fpm ... Or just stick with Apache (maybe put nginx up for a CDN if you intend to run one)

But this is just my opinion, based on passed experiences or tests that could have absolutely no relevance to your use case.

i've tried, can you help me with this, please?

i see a lot of tests nginx+apache VS apache, but i didnt see nginx+apache VS ngnix only

Performance-wise nginx is superior to Apache, according to some statistics I've seen it even outperforms Apache where parsing PHP is concerned(but static content is IIRC where it really pwns Apache).
Why don't you set it up and do a few benchmarks with ab and similar tools, then decide.

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I don't think any "nginx + apache VS nginx" (or "nginx +apache VS apache", or any multiple servers vs single server) statistics do any good or give any kind of trustworthy information. The reason is that you can have nginx + apache set up in a million ways (well, not quite, in about three or four ways) and performance wise it all boils down to what it serves.. That's why this kind of stats aren't done frequently (if at all).

You should take a look of what each web server does best and fit it to your needs.. There are setups of nginx proxying to apache for php (which, personally I don't like), setups where nginx is used as a load balancer and apache (or ligthttpd, or even nginx) as the actual servers, setups of nginx serving CDN and apache (or another server) serving anything else, or even more complex setups.

So you see, each setup would give another set of stats, again, depending on the content served and connections... The simple "Hello world.php" would not be of any values in this cases.. The one thing that is clear in all stats (if you didn't yet see this) is that Apache needs quite a bit of extra memory to handle many concurrent connections (which is because of it's design).. That's it, for all the rest you should really do your own testing (like vl23 already suggested) on your one application.. Or compare them server vs server (which, like I said, are easy to find on Google) on a category that matters to you.

Anyway, I've searched for some discussions that cover "nginx as a reverse proxy for apahce/mod_php VS nginx + php-fpm":
https://groups.drupal.org/node/27082
http://serverfault.com/questions/298...oxy-for-apache

I don't see anything new in there, but you know, maybe you would like to browse over them...

Hope it help..