On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

>
> Has anyone had the experience I just had.  Over maybe 6 weeks I spend 40
> or more hours trying to learn and install PHP-FPM.  I did not know
> anything about PHP-FPM however I was told I needed it if I were to build
> a local (VirtualBox) LAMP server for development and testing.
>
> Yes. Circa 2014 I did a commercial setup of a proprietary CMS (PHP/MySQL)
with a PHP-FPM backend in AWS.
The frontend was a CloudFlare WAF, the backend was AWS infra: load balancer
connecting to a 3-5 (auto-scaling) Apache/PHP-FPM server pool, the CMS
"DocumentRoot" on an NFS file share mounted (ro) on the auto-scale servers,
MySQL on an RDS instance on a private network segment. Apache/PHP-FPM
running on Ubuntu. All this was set up with a tight set of ACLs on each
network segment.

> I asked Chat how to configure a LAMP server to use FPM.  It spit out the
> config with instructions on how so go about getting things configured.
> As I used what chat told me I would run into an issue.  Chat would help
> with more advice.
>
> At that time, Google search was my ChatGPT; I had to mentally sieve
through several how-tos and blogs to get it right. It took me about 25-30
hours of searching, reading, setup, and testing.
The website uptime was almost 100%. The only transient downtime I noted was
the AWS load balancer barfing occasionally.

I got really close maybe within the last week.
>
> It now works... Yikes!!!!!
>

Good for you.  Congratulations!

>
> The good side is I know a lot more about Ubuntu!!!
>

Isn't it fun?  I too learn a *lot* about AWS services.

--
Arun Khan