On May 2, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Barry Brimer wrote:
I had previously considered this, but never went anywhere with it.
Would you
also need something like mod_proxy_html to rewrite HTML on the fly,
or would
that not be required in this case?
Not necessarily - you can set the ServerName and such of each proxied
host to be correct when proxied, not when accessed directly.
Another option would be to use mod_fcgid to delegate to different PHP
instances using FastCGI. FastCGI is popular lately (particularly with
the Ruby-on-Rails people) for other reasons - asynchronous webservers
like lighttpd and nginx have started to become trendy, and because
PHP is not written asynchronously they have no mod_php equivalent.
The biggest advantage to using FastCGI here would be to reduce the
number of processes running and memory footprint. As Paul Heinlein
said, this proxied Apache setup would mean doubling the number of
Apache processes running. Here you just have a few PHP processes
running per vhost to handle the dynamic stuff - static files can be
handled by the main server. Presumably a FastCGI PHP process would
have less of a memory footprint than a whole Apache also.
If you do go with the two layers of Apache instances, at least turn
off keepalives on the proxied ones (a waste when accessed only
locally) and turn down the number of processes they have running.
In an earlier message:
On May 2, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Dan Mensom wrote:
What is the easiest method for dealing with this? I found
http://webauth.stanford.edu/manual/mod/perchild.html but it does
not seem
to be compiled with the CentOS 5 apache, and I've read elsewhere
that php
has issues with mutlithreaded apache.
perchild is dead, I'm afraid.
--
Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>
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