https://www.davehall.com.au/tags/apache/Recent content in Apache on Dave Hall ConsultingHugoen-auFri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/03/16/making-it-easier-spawn-php-cgi-debian-and-ubuntu/Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/03/16/making-it-easier-spawn-php-cgi-debian-and-ubuntu/Apache is a great web server, but sometimes I need something a bit more lightweight. I already have a bunch of sites using lighttpd, but I’m planning on switching them to nginx. Both nginx and lighttpd use FastCGI for running PHP. Getting FastCGI up and running on Ubuntu (or Debian) involves a bit of manual work which can slow down deployment. The normal process to get nginx and php-cgi up and running is to install the spawn-fcgi package, create a shell script such as /usr/local/bin/php-fastcgi to launch it, then a custom init script, after making both of these executable you need to run update-rc.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/05/21/virtual-host-project/Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2008/05/21/virtual-host-project/Not long before my old laptop got to the end of it usable lifespan I started playing with the Zend Framework in my spare time. One of the cool things about ZF is that it wants to use friendly URLs, and a dispatcher to handle all the requests. The downside of this approach, and how ZF is organised, it works best if you use a Virtual Host per project. At first this seemed like a real pain to have to create a virtual host per project.