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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

The initial build of IUS php56u packages will be hitting the testing 
repo tonight for Red Hat and CentOS 7.  We would like some input on how 
to handle the FPM package.  Historically Red Hat and IUS packages have 
taken approach that  FPM would be used with Red Hat's default web 
server, Apache.  With the popularity of Nginx and other web servers, we 
want to reevaluate this approach.

Up until recently, the main php package (php54 and php55u) required 
Apache for mod_php and the php FPM logs were owned by the apache user.  
Since both php54 and php55u had been in the stable repos for some time, 
we were very cautious about making changes.  We removed the requirement 
for Apache, but kept the logs owned by the apache user[0].

Seeing that php56u is a brand new package, we can afford to completely 
rethink how we handle php FPM.  We could follow Red Hat lead and assume 
FPM will be used with Apache.  We could also do what we did with php53u 
and php54.  Another option would be not to require Apache and have the 
logs owned by a new user like http, php, php-fpm or some other user.   
Are there other ideas we should consider?

Thanks,
Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/1312972