User:Int 80h/files/php-fcgi

I retreived the script from some source on the internet. However it didn't work so well, so I changed it a bit, so it actually works.

php-fcgi

Obviously, this needs PHP compiled with FastCGI support. I suggest running this script manually, since it does not produce any pidfiles.

#!/bin/bash

## ABSOLUTE path to the PHP binary
PHPFCGI="/usr/bin/php5-cgi"

## tcp-port to bind on
FCGIPORT="9000"

## IP to bind on
FCGIADDR="127.0.0.1"

## number of PHP children to spawn
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=2

## number of request before php-process will be restarted
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000

## allowed environment variables sperated by spaces
ALLOWED_ENV="ORACLE_HOME PATH USER"

## if this script is run as root switch to the following user
USERID=www-data

################## no config below this line

if test x$PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN = x; then
    PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
fi

ALLOWED_ENV="$ALLOWED_ENV PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN"
ALLOWED_ENV="$ALLOWED_ENV PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS"
ALLOWED_ENV="$ALLOWED_ENV FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS"

if test x$UID = x0; then
    EX="/bin/su -m -c \"$PHPFCGI -q -b $FCGIADDR:$FCGIPORT\" $USERID"
else
    EX="$PHPFCGI -b $FCGIADDR:$FCGIPORT"
fi

echo $EX

# export vars used by php-cgi
export $ALLOWED_ENV

# start php-cgi into background
nohup sh -c "$EX" &> /dev/null &

nginx

I noticed, that PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN should not be higher than 2, when using together with nginx.

This is a portion of nginx config file, that works in conjuctions with php-fcgi. First there needs to be an upstream directive:

upstream phpfcgi {
    server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Then, inside a "server" directive:

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   phpfcgi;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

"fastcgi_params" comes with the nginx package, and lies inside /etc/nginx when installed in Debian.