php-fpm for Windows?

Question

The PHP-FPM's homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there is no php-fpm in it. How do I get it? Is it even available for Windows?

Answer 1

The PHP-FPM's homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there is no php-fpm in it. How do I get it? Is it even available for Windows?

Answer 2

The PHP-FPM's homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there is no php-fpm in it. How do I get it? Is it even available for Windows?

Answer 3

The PHP-FPM's homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there is no php-fpm in it. How do I get it? Is it even available for Windows?

Answer 4

The PHP-FPM's homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there is no php-fpm in it. How do I get it? Is it even available for Windows?

Answer 5

The PHP-FPM's homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there is no php-fpm in it. How do I get it? Is it even available for Windows?

Answer 6

On Windows, when you run PHP with IIS and install the "PHP FastCGI" module, you get similar functionality to what is explained about PHP-FPM. In other words, this is not the official PHP-FPM code base, but just similar functionality.

For one, IIS would spawn multiple php-cgi.exe processes (worker processes). And any PHP requests that come in will be handed down to a worker, IIS will dynamically spawn more workers depending on the server resources. These settings are configurable under the "Fast CGI" options for the server tree node on IIS.

That said, I believe performance-wise the php-cgi.exe is not on par with Apache servers.

You can view the installation procedure for IIS 7 here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/application-frameworks/install-and-configure-php-applications-on-iis/using-fastcgi-to-host-php-applications-on-iis

FastCGI addresses the performance issues that are inherent in CGI by providing a mechanism to reuse a single process over and over again for many requests. Additionally, FastCGI maintains compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries by providing a pool of reusable processes and ensuring that each process handles only one request at a time.

Answer 7

PHP-FPM uses mainly *NIX specific features and is not likely to ever be ported to Windows. In the end there really isn't the motivation, especially when considering php-cgi was developed to allow Windows specific services to configure it as a fork pool. Yes, they have their differences, but not enough so to push the community into a complete rewrite of PHP-FPM.

Keep in mind that php-cgi on Windows is not just multiple instances of a CGI, but uses a Windows managed pool of forked FastCGI processors which use the same architecture of PHP-FPM. Multiple processes complete the module initialization of PHP, and from these multiple forks are maintained (and restarted when needed) to handle requests. php-cgi hasn't been a CGI since at least as early as PHP3.