Advice on php as fastcgi

  • I’ve moved my wordpress sites over to vps at 1and1 over the laast weekend and have had big problems with file ownership with plugins and themes.

    I did a bit of research and discovered the I may need to chown through ssh to change ownership. I’m not experienced in server sdie issues so I’ve oreder a book from amazon ( I did try adn contract it out twice but it was very expensive and caused me major headaches – but enough of that ?? )

    What I’ve just found out though is if I change the run php as apache to run php as fastcgi in Pleask for the web space I don’t need to worry about changing ownership levels. I’ve tested it on a small site and it looks as though everything is fine.

    Before I change the run php on my other websites – one I’ve changed it I will have to uninstall and reinstall all the plugins and themes to take advantage of the new set up – I wanted to ask if anyone has experience of this.

    Will run php as fastcgi be less secure and more cpu intesive as running php as an apache module?

    It will save me a whole lot of learning about chown if it is safe ??

    thanks
    Kevin

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    It can be. I prefer to run it as an apache module, but it really depends on what kinds of sites your running.

    As for the chown stuff, there are WP OK ways around it: https://tech.ipstenu.org/2011/wordpress-dso-and-permissions/

    Thread Starter kevin heath

    (@ypraise)

    Hi Ipstenu

    thanks for the reply. I’m only running wordpress sites now – so much easier than anything else ??

    I’ve been monitoring my server use and it does not seem to be adding too much pressure on my allowances so I think I might go for fastcgi until I get my linux book and done some reading about servers.

    To be honest with you had I known moving over to a VPN would involve so much aggravation I would have stayed on a hosted account even though I was sharing with so many and load times were so slow.

    I prefer content creation to programming and server admin ??

    thanks again
    Kevin

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