Compter-Fu

[kerravonsen]

Well, I have been geeky; I've changed over my web server from apache-mpm-prefork to apache-mpm-worker (with FCGI+PHP)! Well, I did it on my laptop first, earlier this week, as a trial run to see if it would work, and so I knew what I needed to do on my server. For those of you who are totally confused... um... I changed the way my webserver runs.

Why? Because:
a) mpm-worker is faster and takes up less memory (tech: because it's threaded)
b) but then PHP (which is what runs part of my website) had to be reconfigured to work with mpm-worker (tech: mod_php is not thread-safe, but php can be used in CGI mode with FastCGI (mod_fcgid), and it thus runs as fast as it did before)
c) A happy side-effect of PHP + FCGI is that it can be configured to... um... behave nicer with files (tech: one can enable suexec with PHP, which means I don't have to mess with file permissions and file ownership to get my wiki to behave - SQUEE!)

Looking at my server, it does appear to be using less memory (it's gone down from 53% to 42%, yay!).

I found the following two How-Tos very useful: Installing Apache2 and PHP5 using mod_fcgid and How to set up Apache2 with mod_fcgi and PHP5 on Ubuntu.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I understand only a few words of this *g* but it's awfully fun to watch you get geeky over programming and other computery stuff.

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I am too tired to even try to understand this, but computery goodness is always deserving of a yay!