Nginx on Justin Carmony

PHP-FPM, Nginx, PHP_VALUE, and Multiple Values

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:34:57 +0000

Quick little post on a problem I had while trying to use XHGui with my Nginx/PHP-FPM setup. I needed to be able to pass the auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file settings to PHP-FPM from Nginx. In apache you can declare multiple php_value settings. However, when I did the same in nginx, it would only reflect the second setting. Turns out you need to set all of your php_value’s in Nginx in a single string, and you separate them by new line characters. Here is how it should look:

Debugging Nginx Configuration Trick

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:24:49 +0000

Today I had an issue where I was trying to debug a problem with an nginx configuration, I came up with a simple trick. One of the hardest parts of nginx configurations, especially with rewrites, is you might not know which “location” directive is not working as expected.

In PHP, sometimes you would just add something like this:

echo "I'm here!";
exit();

However, in Nginx configuration files, it isn’t as easy…

… or is it?

Setting Up Nginx & PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 10.04

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:50:59 +0000

This is another wonderful setup that I’ve found myself using rather than the traditional Apache & mod_php setup.

What is Nginx?

Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a fast, powerful, lightweight web server. I won’t go into the theory under-the-hood, but it’s focus is high concurrency with low memory usage. So while Apache is more robust in supporting many different features, nginx focuses on handling the important features very quickly. I still use Apache internally for our SVN & Trac web server. Heck, even at this time I’m using Apache to host this blog. However, Dating DNA, Clipish, CEVO, Alienware Arena, and some other high traffic sites/apis use nginx.

PHP, Nginx, and Output Flushing

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Alright, so one of the few hangups I’ve ran into with moving from Apache to Nginx was output buffering. Now, we have a few administrative tools we use to perform large operations on our library and data. These scripts can take normally 3-5 minutes to run, and they output their progress and what step they are on as they run. The way they do this is after ever step in PHP I issue the same two commands: