Been dabbling with Joomla and followed this guide from how to forge to get my hands dirty. http://www.howtoforge.com/running-joomla-1.7-on-nginx-lemp-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.10 Was hoping that someone can help me out with setting up FastCGI spawning. The how to forge article seems to spawn a single instance of FastCGI at boot time. This concerned me since NGiNX can spawn multiple workers depending on what you set in the conf and you may end up with a bottleneck under load if you have a single FastCGI process handling all the requests from those workers. After doing some digging I found the following (http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample). The code is more complex but appears to spawn FastCGI as needed up to the limit that I set. Can someone point me as to the "correct" way to do this, I am leaning toward the NGiNX wiki. Thanks
Do you use Debian or Ubuntu? For recent Ubuntu versions, there's a PHP-FPM package, while there isn't for Debian Squeeze.
After your previous post I started to look into php5-fpm and found this and this. I think I am going to try adding the dotdeb repo for squeeze and use their packages for nginx and php5-fpm in a test vm and see how it goes. If that seems flaky then I am going to try the solution from the nginx forums that somehow seems like the next best solution. Thanks for your input....
