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Update On: 23 Jul 2021cpXstack plugin Nginx and PHP-FPM

You can use FREE cpXstack plugin for load balance between webservers and PHP. its provide an alternate web server and PHP stack with an option to switch the web server to nginX which process PHP scripts via FastCGI protocol using PHP-FPM and Apache.

PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. Both Nginx and php-fpm will give better performance for your websites.

FREE cpanel cpXstack plugin Nginx and PHP-FPM to reduce server loads.

cpXstack cpanel plugin advantages

• • cpXstack module limits the highest number of PHP methods per user.
  • Nginx’s event-driven approach can give a more expected performance under high loads, thereby enabling admins to reduce server load and scale server resources.
  • Nginx consumes lesser RAM while matching with Apache HTTPD thereby helping admins to efficiently utilize the server's primary thought.
  • PHP-FPM has more features than other FastCGI implementations and is used by many high-load installations.
  • Provide multiple versions of PHP to the end-users
  • cpXstack a clean install and uninstall – the plugin does not make significant changes to your Cpanel/other service configuration and once uninstalled brings back the system into the same system configuration as before.
  • For an end, the user can adjust nginX+PHP-FPM instead of Apache/PHP and switch between PHP versions.
  • Faster page loads for static files and effective PHP content due to the inherent design features of nginx and PHP-FPM.

   

CPXstack Installation

Before proceed, please make sure the following requirements.

Cpanel version 11.31 or greater
Incron
bzip2
Devel packages to compile PHP from source
CPXstack will install Nginx from yum repo and incron from the EPEL repo. PHP and cpXstack files will be installed to /opt/pifpm directory. Normall cpxstack installation will take some time depending on your previous accounts and performance.

It is strongly advised that you perform the install in a screen

wget http://sysally.net/pifpm/cpxstack.shchmod a+x cpxstack.sh./cpxstack.sh install

Once installation completed, check your WHM -> Plugins.

For cpanel users cPanel -> Softwares/ Services

You can regenerate a users config files by running the following command from the command line

cd /opt/pifpm/scripts./looper.sh USERNAME