Re: FASTCGI and release 7.1 Zend CE installation instructions

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent description - exactly what I needed.

The reason I am running on a non-standard port is because that is the
default for the Zend install and I haven't yet determined the effort
involved in converting it over to my port 80 instance of Apache that is
hosting multiple sites along with RPG FasterCGI<tic> programs.

Thanks again for the explanation.

Aaron Bartell
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Aaron,
>
> A native program (the IBM-supplied programs for Apache) cannot load an
> AIX program (Zend's port of PHP) as a module.  So Zend server cannot run
> as an Apache module in the native HTTP server.
>
> Their old solution to this was to operate in an Apache module of the AIX
> version of Apache.  That worked, but required two copies of Apache
> (native and PASE) with a proxy between them, and this caused a lot of
> problems for folks.
>
> So they changed it. They eliminated the Apache module and the AIX
> version of Apache, and instead they use FastCGI.  FastCGI involves a
> "never-ending" program running in batch that communicates with the
> Apache server via sockets. It's published as an open standard for
> everyone to use.  PHP has supported FastCGI for a long time, so very
> little extra work was required on Zend's part. (IBM had to add FastCGI
> support to their HTTP server, though.)
>
> In fact, you can run the Zend Core PHP with FastCGI support instead of
> the 2nd HTTP server if you want to.  All Zend really did was package it
> nicely and write the installer to make it easy to setup.  (and provide
> support, etc.)
>
> So that's why it needs to exist.
>
> As for the "ugly port on the URL".  The only reason you get that is
> because you've chosen to run your HTTP server on a non-standard port.
> Frankly, that should *only* be done in test scenarios...  it'll
> doubtless cause firewall problems for some customers if you try to do it
> in production.
>
>
> On 12/21/2010 1:52 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> > > Do you have any concern with FastCGI on IBM i?
> >
> > No concern.  Just trying to learn why it needs to exist.  I am actively
> > trying to get two APache instances to co-exist on my IBMi without one
> > requiring the ugly port on the URL.  Here is where my progress is
> > documented:
> http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=8901&sid=bdd702ec4748c42f33c8f38e3abc5de3&p=29605#p29605
> >
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