Apache checks for .htaccess in every directory from the document root down to the requested file, on every request, and it cannot cache the result because the file…
Moving from Apache with mod_php to nginx with php-fpm changes where PHP runs, which user it runs as, and which configuration file it reads — and each of…
Moving an application from Apache to nginx usually starts with someone trying to convert thirty lines of .htaccess rule by rule. Most of it does not need converting:…
512 MB, 150 concurrent visitors, and a box that swaps before the CPU is busy. Replacing Apache and mod_php with nginx and PHP-FPM, in three stages that each…
With prefork and mod_php, every Apache child has the interpreter and all of its extensions linked into it, regardless of what that child is currently doing. Forty workers…