nginx + PHP-FPM farm?

Question

I have a setup with two small servers running nginx serving as proxy and a number of Apache+mod_php beefy servers. I am thinking on going over to PHP-FPM. Can I configure nginx to use a number of FastCGI servers? Or PHP-FPM itself to use workers on different machines? Or do I need to run nginx on the workers?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '10 at 11:12

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no you can run 1 nginx machine and many php-fpm machines.

upstream php {
  server 10.0.0.1:9000;
  server 10.0.0.2:9000;
  server 10.0.0.3:9000;
}

Then in your locaction

fastcgi_pass php;

answered Dec 28 '10 at 11:12

Mike

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Thanks! That was totally not clear from the documentation. – chx Dec 28 '10 at 11:31
What about keep alive connections? What should the number of keep alive be? – CMCDragonkai Apr 15 '14 at 04:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 29 '12 at 23:13

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A complement to Mike's answer.

Check this vulnerability that can arise when you have nginx and PHP-FPM in different servers. The bottom line is: don't allow users to upload content to your public directory.

answered Jan 29 '12 at 23:13

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this got fixed in php >=5.3.9 [issue](https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.php.net%2Fbug.php%3Fid%3D55181%3AaQuKoujCOhGb9OxfGdB83t6aAgc&cuid=1200067) – JohannesM Oct 08 '21 at 11:47

nginx + PHP-FPM farm?

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