PHP-FPM is a Fast-CGI frontend for php, and an enhancement of php-cgi. The project is hosted on Launchpad
Choose one of 2 ways to compile fpm. Either integrated
or separate
. Unless you are a developer or systems administrator, we recommend the integrated
compilation approach. For more information see the file readme.markdown
.
There are (2) Dependencies. If you haven't built php before, you'll need to install libxml dev package. FPM also requires the Libevent library so install libevent-dev too. The command for debian / ubuntu is:
sudo aptitude install -y libxml2-dev libevent-dev
Libevent 1.4.12-stable or higher is recommended, and at least libevent 1.4.3-stable is required. If no suitable version available, download and compile it from the Libevent website.
export LE_VER=1.4.12-stable
wget "http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-$LE_VER.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf "libevent-$LE_VER.tar.gz"
cd "libevent-$LE_VER"
./configure && make
DESTDIR=$PWD make install
export LIBEVENT_SEARCH_PATH="$PWD/usr/local"
In the above example we have installed libevent into its own directory (by prefixing DESTDIR=$PWD). If that didn't work for you, then use just plain make install
to install system-wide.
Download fpm and generate the patch file
export PHP_VER=5.3.0
wget "http://launchpad.net/php-fpm/master/0.6/+download/php-fpm-0.6~$PHP_VER.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf "php-fpm-0.6~$PHP_VER.tar.gz"
"php-fpm-0.6-$PHP_VER/generate-fpm-patch"
The PHP source code. Download it, unpack it.
wget "http://us.php.net/get/php-$PHP_VER.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror"
tar xvfz "php-$PHP_VER.tar.gz"
cd "php-$PHP_VER"
Apply the patch and compile
patch -p1 < ../fpm.patch
./buildconf --force
mkdir fpm-build && cd fpm-build
../configure --with-fpm \
--with-libevent="$LIBEVENT_SEARCH_PATH" && make
There are (2) Dependencies. If you haven't built php before, you'll need to install libxml dev package. FPM also requires the Libevent library. So install libevent-dev too. The command for debian / ubuntu is:
sudo aptitude install -y libxml2-dev libevent-dev
The PHP source code. Download it, unpack it, compile it.
export PHP_VER=5.3.0
wget "http://us.php.net/get/php-$PHP_VER.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror"
tar xvfz "php-$PHP_VER.tar.gz"
cd "php-$PHP_VER"
mkdir php-build && cd php-build
../configure && make
Now you can download, Configure and compile the FPM frontend
wget "http://launchpad.net/php-fpm/master/0.6/+download/php-fpm-0.6~$PHP_VER.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf "php-fpm-0.6~$PHP_VER.tar.gz"
cd "php-fpm-0.6-$PHP_VER"
mkdir fpm-build && cd fpm-build
../configure --srcdir=../ \
--with-php-src="../../php-$PHP_VER" \
--with-php-build="../../php-$PHP_VER/php-build" \
--with-libevent="$LIBEVENT_SEARCH_PATH" && make
--with-fpm Build the fpm SAPI (and not php-cgi)
--with-config-file-path=[PATH] Where to look for php.ini
--with-config-file-scan-dir[=PATH] Search path for extension .ini files
There are many possible php build flags. Please consult the official php documentation.
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Note: The following build flags are not used anymore. They are simply ignored by the configure script.
--enable-fastcgi --enable-force-cgi-redirect
--with-libevent[=PATH] Path to the libevent, for fpm SAPI [/usr/local]
--with-fpm-bin[=PATH] Set the path for the php-fpm binary [/usr/local/bin/php-fpm]
--with-fpm-port[=PORT] Set the tcp port number to listen for cgi requests [9000]
--with[out]-fpm-conf[=PATH] Set the path for the php-fpm configuration file [/etc/php-fpm.conf]
--with[out]-fpm-init[=PATH] Set the path for the php-fpm init file [/etc/init.d/php-fpm]
--with-fpm-log[=PATH] Set the path for the php-fpm log file [/var/log/php-fpm.log]
--with-fpm-pid[=PATH] Set the path for the php-fpm pid file [/var/run/php-fpm.pid]
--with-fpm-user[=USER] Set the user for the php-fpm to run as [nobody]
--with-fpm-group[=GRP] Set the group for php-fpm to run as. For a system user,
this should be set to match the fpm username [nobody]
If compiled integrated
, then you will get a full php install, including the command line interpreter php-cli
, and the PEAR extensions library. The seperate
or standalone
compilation method will install only the php-fpm
daemon and the bare minimum of files required to run it.
# See which files will be installed
make install --dry-run
# Install into '/'
sudo make install
# Install into '/opt'
sudo INSTALL_ROOT=/opt make install
Notes:
-
(Upgrade) When overwriting existing FPM installation files: A previous configuration file
php-fpm.conf
will be moved tophp-fpm.conf.old
. Then a newer (default) configuration file will be installed in it's place. If you have any custom XML settings which you wish to keep, its recommended to copy these back over manually. -
(BSD) the default init.d path is
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/php-fpm
or disable:--without-fpm-init
-
(Nginx) An example nginx configuration file is generated. The file
nginx-site-conf.sample
may be installed into your nginx configuration directory, if exists:/etc/nginx/
,/usr/local/etc/nginx/
, or/usr/local/nginx/conf
The make process can be described as:
1) Compile the php sources into object files in the php build directory
2) Compile the fpm sources into object files in the fpm build directory
3) Link all the php object file with these fpm object file together
4) Output: Static php5 binary, which is php as base and fpm's fast-CGI SAPI as frontend
Fpm is mixed into php at the link-level. Andrei has de-coupled the fpm sources, making the SAPI part somewhat less sensitive to changes in the rest of php. PHP-FPM cgi-main.c request handler is derived from the original fcgi-sapi. We are submitting this 0.6 code to PHP Group. We will track developments in PHP and periodically sync changes back from them into the external / standalone project.
For the external fpm project, generating ./configure
requires certiain versions of the autoconf toolset. You need at least some version of autoconf to install these build tools. If you need to use run buildconf, then it will run ./generate-autotools
and try to install these locally. If ./buildconf
fails please consult the error log.
There are 2 discussion groups for php-fpm,
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highload-php-ru (english)
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highload-php-ru (Russian)