A PHP FastCGI Process manager can be a used to spawn php fastcgi server instances when you have configured your web server to pass php scripts to a FastCGI server .This can be used with web servers like Nginx and lighthttpd .
Download the patch file for your php version from http://php-fpm.anight.org/
Download your php version of [...]

According to the official ffmpeg-php website: ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP’s image functions
Inodder to use this extension;you [...]

A slight change in the setup and now i can see the user who is executing the scripts in my website
Before when apache intrepets a php script it calls fastcgi which inturn calls the php cgi binary.But still the php binary is executed as the calling user which in our case is the user [...]

Today gnusys.net had a little downtime as i was trying to change my apache-php interface into FastCGI.
The installation of php-cgi and mod_fcgid went pretty simple in my Debian Etch;so was the configuration
The tricky part was that the wordpress blog was giving Internal Server Error in the index page.
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[Thu May 22 04:15:41 2008] [notice] mod_fcgid: call [...]

You can change the php memory_limit value for a particular domain or on a per virtual host basis by the following way
Add the following line to the file
/home/httpd/vhosts/gnusys.net/conf/vhost.conf
php_admin_value memory_limit “128M”
Reconfigure the vhost by running the following command
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=gnusys.net
and restart the webserver using the command
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –restart
Check if the setting is correct using phpinfo(); function

Xcache is a very good php cache that can accelerate php page deliveries .The following example uses xcache version 1.2.2.Please check the website http://xcache.lighttpd.net/ before you start the installation for the latest available release of this actively maintained software
neutron:~# wget http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.2.2/xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
neutron:~# tar -xvzf xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
neutron:~# cd xcache-1.2.2/
neutron:~/xcache-1.2.2# phpize
neutron:~/xcache-1.2.2# ./configure –enable-xcache –enable-xcache-optimizer
neutron:~/xcache-1.2.2# make
neutron:~/xcache-1.2.2# make install
neutron:~/xcache-1.2.2# cat xcache.ini [...]

If you get the following error while trying to install pecl packages
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pecl install xmlrpci-1.0
WARNING: channel “pear.php.net” has updated its protocols, use “channel-update pear.php.net” to update
downloading xmlrpci-1.0.tgz …
Starting to download xmlrpci-1.0.tgz (9,668 bytes)
…..done: 9,668 bytes
4 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: [...]