Apache is a most widely used web server in Linux platforms and is one of the best stacks to host PHP applications. With the release of Apache httpd 2.4, there is a Apache proxy module (mod_proxy_fcgi.) introduced and integrated by default with Apache. Also From release 5.3.3 onward, PHP now includes the fastCGI process manager (php-fpm) in the stock source code.
So in short we can install and enable those php and Apache related packages in a Linux server and setup to run Apache with PHP-FPM. In this setup Apache will send all the PHP files for processing to PHP-FPM and PHP-FPM will return the rendered output to the browser. using this stack, a website can load faster and handle more concurrent connections while using fewer resources. Using PHP-FPM we can run each PHP application on a separate process and can assign resource limitations.
In this blog article we configure Apache with php-fpm on Centos7. After that we can run php code using only stock Apache and php binaries. No need to configure anything like suphp, mod_php or suexec. You can also refer this article if you have the newer Centos 8. So lets get started.
Install Apache
Install php-fpm
Create below two directories.
Create a file Named example.conf using below command.
Add below content in above example.conf file.
Create Below Directories and files.
Allow Apache to read the conf files from the /etc/httpd/sites-enabled folder. For that we are going to add following line at the end of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.
Now go the folder named /etc/php-fpm.d and create a file named example.conf and add below content.
Add below content in example.conf file.
Execute Below commands.
This concludes the installation and configuration apache with php-fpm. Now if you visit the phpinfo page, we can see FPM/FastCGI in the ServerAPI field. Take a look at the below screenshot. Leave your thoughts at the comment box.
