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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/08/2014 04:04 PM, Ben Harper wrote:
> 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
>
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BJ had an interesting idea in #iuscommunity.  His idea was to have a 
dedicate package for FPM and Nginx, something like php56u-fpm-nginx.  
The php56u and php56u-fpm would continue to use Apache, while the 
php56u-fpm-nginx would be set up to work with Ngnix.  I think this idea 
is worthy of consideration.

-Ben