FastCGI

First of all, excuse my English. I hope you can understand what I want to ask.

For a long time I have used this NginX config as a template for mine own, but I am very unsatisfied with it's security concerning PHP files. I mean, there are only some PHP files which a really needed for Drupal to work: index.php, update.php and cron.php (install.php used only once and I don't use any features of xmlrpc.php). So I want to rewrite my NginX config to grant access only for enlisted PHP files.

I've been fairly happy w/ dreamhost and I like having their support team behind me. But - every time I try out nginx fastcgi/PHP crashes after several hours and the site goes down. I wonder if anybody here has seen this or has some ideas.

Hi,

I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I have switched from apache to nginx by using the config files from yhager on http://github.com/yhager/nginx_drupal. When accessing the site, I am redirected to install.php. How can I enable logging in order to track down the problem? Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Stéphane

Do you still use spawn-fcgi with Nginx? It's time to consider PHP-FPM.

PHP in the form in which it is available from php.net has a number of well-known issues associated with the use of the FastCGI SAPI in production. See this comparison chart of problems and how php-fpm handles them, when enabled with the FastCGI SAPI.

Features available only in PHP-FPM: