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As of July 22nd 2010 PHP-FPM is a part of PHP 5.3.3 core's trunk. FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some useful additional features. In this tutorial I will compile NginX 0.8.47 and PHP 5.3.3 with FPM, MySQL, Suhosin, APC and Imagick on Ubuntu 10.04.

I will not explain how to configure NginX here. You can find a lot of resources about that on the nginx wiki or my previus post Install NginX with PHP-FPM in Ubuntu 10.04.

My previous article explains how to install Tomcat 6 in Ubuntu and deploy the Apache Solr application. If you preffer to deploy it under Jetty, the following steps explain how to install jetty and prepare a multi coresetup of Solr:

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.

If you want a web server with a very small memory footprint then you should think of trying NginX. It's very light weight and in some situations it performs much better than Apache (like serving static content). Many websites, use it as a frontend to apache, so that all the static content is served by NginX and the rest is proxied to a backend Apache. It can also handle php files by itself with the help of fast-cgi, spawn-fcgi or php-fpm. Php-Fpm is not as mature as Apache's mod_php, but it performs about the same.

So now let's install NginX with a php-fpm proxy.

In order to configure your network adapter with the static ip provided, you have to modify the following file:

vi /etc/network/interfaces

And add/modify the following lines:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address YOUR.EXTENAL.IP.ADDRESS
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway YOUR.GATEWAY

Setup you host name:

vi /etc/hosts

Sould contain: