High-performance PHP on apache httpd 2.4.x using mod_proxy_fcgi and php-fpm.With the release of apache httpd 2.4 upon an unsuspecting populace, we have gained some very neat functionality regarding apache and php: the ability to run PHP as a fastCGI process server, and address that fastCGI server directly from within apache, via a dedicated proxy module (mod_proxy_fcgi.) starting from release 5.3.