nginx configuration gotchas

After running away screaming from Zend_XmlRpc we migrated of our internal webservices are RESTful nowadays — which implies that we make heavy use of HTTP status codes and so on. On the PHP side of things we implemented almost all of those webservices using the Zend Framework where some parts are replaced by in-house replacements (mostly stripped-down and optimized versions equivalents of Zend_Foo) and a couple nifty PEAR packages. RESTful — how does it work?...

April 5, 2011 · 3 min

PHP FastCGI woes!

Those of you who run high traffic websites, have probably tried php-cgi/fcgi down the road. And most of us, have gone back to Apache. But now — actually since the middle of 2007 — there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I read a blog post by Evert Pot’s last night (Apache speed and reverse proxies). Evert noted that he tried to use Lighttpd and php-fcgi, all the infamouse tricks with spawn-fcgi....

January 26, 2009 · 2 min