Light httpd (
http://www.lighttpd.net/ ) is a much more resource light web server that uses a fastcgi interface for php. Once your feng office starts to do a lot of traffic it's time to seriously tune apache, or look at faster alternatives. These instructions are based on a redhat install, but will work for other distributions (I will provide nginx instructions later as well).
1. Download & lighttpd and lighttpd-fastcgi (yum install lighttpd lighttpd-fastcgi)
2. Edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
a. Uncomment mod_fastcgi module
b. Change the server.document-root to something appropriate for your environment
c. uncomment fastcgi.server section
3. Adjust php.ini and set cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 and default_charset = "utf-8"
4. CD to your feng office root directory and chown -R lighttpd cache config tmp upload
5. Start lighttpd and have some fun
Gotchas:
If your using .htaccess to add any re-writing rules then you will have to take them out and put them in the server config.
If you use SSL, you need to create a PEM style key file for lighthttpd.
It has a much smaller memory footprint than Apache, and in testing the feng office felt much more responsive. This was even after "tuning" apache. I hope you find this usefull.
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