MacPorts Leopard + Apache 2.2.17 + PHP 5.3.5 + WordPress 3.0.4 + 1 million or so users per month issue

[Betty Bronner]

We've unfortunately had to revert to the Apple Apache and Entropy PHP  for the 
time being.  The problems were happening too frequently.  Of  course, that means 
we are now back to square one.

MacPorts is pretty much a last-ditch effort to try to continue to use  Leopard 
to host the site.  We're evaluating all options but we're  running out of them 
very quickly.  I've tried building the software  myself from source but it 
typically just breaks somewhere halfway through the  build and I give up.  
Everyone on the Internet is all "Linux or bust!" with no support  or love for OS 
X Server.  Plus, Apple recently terminated the OS X  Server product line.

I found this:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/26039

But obviously that isn't included yet or it would show up in the variants list.

nginx is the new hotness - powering 6% of the top 1 million web servers - and 
will probably stay the new hotness as long as they don't bloat the default 
out-of-the-box server like Apache.  Unfortunately, it is still a rather 
experimental server.  Everyone's been recommending php-fpm with nginx.  I got an 
idea I'll try tomorrow and see if I can make it work - maybe nginx with php5 
+fastcgi +pear might work.

- Betty



________________________________
From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
To: Betty Bronner <bettybronner at yahoo.com>
Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 9:27:50 PM
Subject: Re: MacPorts Leopard + Apache 2.2.17 + PHP 5.3.5 + WordPress 3.0.4 + 1 
million or so users per month issue


On Jan 27, 2011, at 14:53, Betty Bronner wrote:

> Running with the combination in the subject line causes, every once in a while, 
>to have random RSS feeds from the WordPress install show up instead of the page 
>that the user requested.  This problem is exasperated as the number of users 
>hitting the system increases.  The only critical variant being used is:
> 
> php5 +apache2 +pear
> 
> Everything in MacPorts built just fine.  The command I used was 'sudo port 
>install php5 +apache2 +pear'.

Hmmmm. Sorry to hear that.


> This box also has the Entropy PHP 5.3.0 build running on it but that is/was 
>tied to the Apple built Apache server.  It didn't seem to cause problems with 
>the MacPorts build process but maybe it did?  I also tried to mirror the 
>httpd.conf in the Apple Apache as closely as possible.

You're right, MacPorts Apache/PHP should be separate from and not interfere with 
(or be interfered with) by Apple Apache/PHP or Entropy PHP.


> I'm also interested in nginx.  Anyone have any instructions on how to set up 
>nginx with MacPorts - specifically migrating a WordPress install?  If I can get 
>nginx working with WordPress, it will allow me to determine if PHP or Apache is 
>the issue.  I've also read that nginx works better with PHP-FPM, but I have no 
>idea what PHP-FPM is or how to set it up - MacPorts-specific instructions are 
>very much desired for this too.  PHP-FPM is voodoo because no one can explain 
>what it is or does or how to actually use it but everyone says it is awesome.

nginx is interesting, but I haven't looked into it. I used to be interested in 
lighttpd, but its development seems to have stagnated; nginx seems to be the new 
hotness.

There is an open request to add FPM support to MacPorts PHP:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26039

I was hesitant to add yet another variant to MacPorts PHP after expending so 
much effort removing the existing variants; I really wanted to go a different 
way and have separate ports for each PHP SAPI, as discussed here:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19091

Partly due to this, I haven't looked into PHP-FPM yet.


      
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