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php patch for php-fpm for apache 2.4 load balancer/mod_proxy_fcgi

Asked by Joshua Rusch

Hi there,

I'm trying to get apache 2.4 working as a load balancer for php-fpm. Unfortunately there are bugs in both apache 2.4 and php-fpm preventing this from happening. I've opened up 2 bugs,

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62172
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53305

I'm wondering if you guys would patch your php54 with above patch (even though apache side seems broken at the moment) when I get this all worked out? I'm guessing even if they like my patch, it could take ages to make it into an official release.

At this point I have to wait a few days to see what people at php and apache have to say. But I wanted to open the dialogue to see if you guys would be willing to patch your version of php ahead of it going in a release assuming they approve and commit something.

Thanks!

Josh

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Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness) said : 		#1

Greetings Joshua,

Thank you for posting this PHP bug and patch.

I will review the patch, if it does not cause issues
for current php54 users will consider it for php54.

Jeffrey-

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Joshua Rusch (jdr-alexanderinteractive) said : 		#2

Awesome, thanks for looking into this. Hopefully the php people will add their 2 cents to that ticket some time this week. I hope.

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Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness) said : 		#3

I'm creating build php54-5.4.3-2.ius with this patch as we speak,
I hope to have it in test by tonight for the sync.

Once it is available I'll let you know and would appreciate if you could test it out.

Jeffrey-

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Joshua Rusch (jdr-alexanderinteractive) said : 		#4

Great, thank you so much! I will upgrade all my QA servers to it when its ready. I already already did the same with your php package yesterday just to test, it's what I'm running on my apache 2.4 test server. But I really didn't want to maintain my own set of php packages, even if it was just to add a single patch.

The problem on the apache side may not even exist when using the regular proxy directives, but I have to use mod_rewrite to get SEO URLs working. It's a shame this wasn't working perfectly at launch, I think one of the reasons a lot of people have migrated to nginx was for the easy config of php-fpm in a load balancer. Hopefully the now non-experimental status of the event MPM will mitigate some of the other advantages nginx had over apache as well.

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Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness) said : 		#5

Greetings!

Package php54-5.4.3-2.ius has been added to the IUS Testing channels,
you should be able to install using the below command:

   yum install php54 --enablerepo=ius-testing

Or you can grab the packages manually from our repo:

  http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/testing/Redhat/

Please let us know how these packages work out.

Thanks!

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Joshua Rusch (jdr-alexanderinteractive) said : 		#6

Great news, I will let you know after I've done a couple of test installs. Thanks!

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Joshua Rusch (jdr-alexanderinteractive) said : 		#7

Hi Jeffrey,

I installed the packages on one of my QA servers last night, nobody complained about anything blowing up, but I don't use php-fpm there. I just installed it on my httpd 2.4 test server, and the patch seems to be working as intended.

Thanks for you help!

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Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness) said : 		#8

Excellent Joshua!

Really appreciate your assistance in testing the package,
we will get it in to IUS Stable on the scheduled push (after 14 days in testing).

Jeffrey-