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Asked: 2010-05-08 18:59:09 +0800 CST

Should I Use PHP as FastCGI?

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I am running an Apache webserver on my Windows machine. It is not generally a public server (most of the little bit of traffic comes from the machine itself, and most of the public traffic comes from crawlers). Basically, it is mostly just for use as a test-bed, development system.

I have read about how running PHP as FastCGI is better (ie faster and more stable) than as an Apache module. However, I really don’t like the idea of multiple PHP.exe processes (I don’t like that Apache has two processes and I’m not even too thrilled with Chromium’s multi-process model).

So I’m wondering if it would be worthwhile to change PHP to FastCGI for this scenario. If it is, how would I configure it? Pretty much all of the information I have seen has been either for non-Windows or for IIS. As I said, I’m running Windows+Apache.

Thanks a lot.

windows php apache-2.2 fastcgi

1 Answers

  1. Since it is just a test-bed development system, there will be little advantage/disadvantage from the 'added' speed-up to using FastCGI. You would probably not even notice it. So, there is no reason to do so unnecessarily.

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