PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative implementation of PHP FastCGI that allows a website to handle high loads. It provides some additional features like adaptive process spawning which is useful for websites. To install PHP-FPM on Debian/Ubuntu follow the below instructions step by step:
Apache2 & FastCGI module Installation:
Execute the following commands to install the latest version of Apache2 web server and FastCGI module:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-fcgid
Note: For earlier versions, the FastCGi package may be found with the name libapache2-mod-fastcgi
Restart the Apache webserver by running this command:
systemctl restart apache2.service
PHP Installation:
For the installation of PHP versions on Debian/Ubuntu, PPA Repository will be used. Execute the below commands to install multiple php versions:
sudo apt install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt update
sudo apt install php5.6 php5.6-fpm
sudo apt install
sudo apt install php7.2 php7.2-fpm
After installing the above packages, php-fpm service will get started automatically. It can be verified by typing below command on terminal:
sudo systemctl status php7.0-fpm
Apache Configuration:
Now configure multiple PHP-FPM versions with apache server by running the commands below:
a2enmod actions fcgid alias proxy_fcgi
To configure the Apache VirtualHost to run with FPM/FastCGI use test virtual host and make a site in /etc/apache2/sites-available directory. Copy the virtual host file 000-default.conf as test123.conf and then open that file in text editor.
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
sudo cp 000-default.conf test123.conf
sudo nano test123.conf
Add Below information in test123.conf file:
- ServerName www.test123.com
- ServerAlias tes123.com
- DocumentRoot = /var/www/html/
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/run/php/php7.0(version)-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost/"
</FilesMatch>
PHP-FPM Configuration:
User Group permissions are required to be set at PHP-FPM
sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
- Unix user/group of processes
- user = Debian
- group = Debian
-Set permissions for unix socket
- listen.owner = Debian
- listen.group = Debian
After setting that, restart apache and PHP-FPM Services and enable some modules by running the below commands:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo service php7.0-fpm restart
Multiple PHP-FPM versions are now installed and configured on your Debain / Ubuntu machines. To test, you can create a test.php file in your DocumentRoot with content below and access it via your web browser.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
You will be able to see FPM/FastCGI as Server API in PHP configuration.
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