Setting Up PHP behind Nginx with FastCGI — SitePointThe traditional way of running PHP is with Apache HTTP Server using mod_php. In fact, mod_php was the most popular Apache module up until 2009 when that claim went to mod_ssl. But as the Internet grew and the technologies that power it evolved, other ways of serving PHP sites and applications became available. nginx, a server written to solve the C10k problem, is eating into Apache’s marketshare,
