Installing PHP FastCGI

-Installing PHP FastCGI - -

- -Discouraged for PHP 5.3.3 and newer - -

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-Emerging PHP - - -

-PHP has a huge number of USE flags available. Luckily, the USE flags tha= t the -PHP ebuilds set by default are fairly sane so the only one we need to ad= d is=20 -the cgi USE flag, which gives us the FastCGI server API. I find that ena= bling -cgi as a global USE flag in /etc/make.conf is a bad idea as= I do not -care about enabling cgi support for every single package in the tree tha= t -support such a thing. If you are like me, adding it to -/etc/portage/package.use is what you want. Just drop the fo= llowing line -in there: -

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-dev-lang/php cgi
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-That is about all the configuration you need for PHP. Now, emerge!

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-emerge -av php
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-configuring Apache2 - - -

-Apache is a trusted member of the LAMP stack and probably the webserver = that -the most people are familiar with. In addition to www-servers/apache, we= need -to install another package to get fastcgi working: www-apache/mod_fas= tcgi. -

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-emerge -av apache mod_fastcgi
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After all has been installed, simply enable it in:

-APACHE2_OPTS=3D"-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D USERDIR -D =
FASTCGI"
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Once that is done, drop the following into /etc/apache2/vhosts.= d/00_default_vhost.conf

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-Listen 80
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-NameVirtualHost *:80
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-<VirtualHost *:80>
-        ServerName localhost
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-        DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/
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-        <IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
-                ServerEnvironment apache apache
-        </IfModule>
-         AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
-         FastCgiServer /usr/lib/php5.2/bin/php-cgi
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-        <Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs/>
-        Order deny,allow
-        Allow from all
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-        </Directory>
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-</VirtualHost>
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That is it. Now start apache

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-/etc/init.d/apache2 start
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Put something like the following into /var/www/localhost/htdocs= /index.php

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-<?php
-phpinfo();
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That is it. Now you should be able to enter http://localhost/index.php to test your setup.

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-Configuring lighttpd - - - -

First, make sure that you have the php USE flag enabled in your syste= m. Revisit your /etc/portage/package.use is what and append the following= :

-www-server/lighttpd php
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Then emerge lighttpd

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-emerge -av lighttpd
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That is basically it. The configuration files that comes with lighttp= d should work out of the box, and you should be able to see your site at -http://localhost/index.php

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