Magento Site Performance Optimization
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Choosing the Best Web Server<br />
Installing the Nginx 1.1.19 web server<br />
In this section, we will see how much Nginx 1.1.19 can improve our performance<br />
in serving <strong>Magento</strong>. Unlike Apache2 and lighttpd, Nginx cannot serve <strong>Magento</strong><br />
without a lot of configuration. Therefore, we will spend the first part of this section<br />
to install and configure Nginx in order to serve <strong>Magento</strong> and, in the second step, we<br />
will optimize Nginx.<br />
Before optimization<br />
The first step is to install all the required components using the following command:<br />
$ sudo apt-get install nginx spawn-fcgi php5-cgi php5-cli php5-mcrypt<br />
php5-gd php5-curl<br />
Then, we need a script to force PHP to start in the fastcgi mode. This script has<br />
been built by atoc.com and can be downloaded at http://mathieu-nayrolles.<br />
com/magento-optimization/chapter2/php5-fcgi. This script is placed in /etc/<br />
init.d/:<br />
#! /bin/sh<br />
### BEGIN INIT INFO<br />
# Provides: php5-fcgi<br />
# Required-Start: $all<br />
# Required-Stop: $all<br />
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5<br />
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6<br />
# Short-Description: PHP FastCGI<br />
# Description: PHP FastCGI<br />
### END INIT INFO<br />
# Author: AITOC <br />
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin<br />
DESC="PHP FastCGI"<br />
NAME=php5-fcgi<br />
DAEMON=/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi<br />
FCGI_SOCKET=/var/run/php5-fcgi.sock<br />
FCGI_USER=www-data<br />
FCGI_MODE=0600<br />
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid<br />
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME<br />
DAEMON_ARGS="-s $FCGI_SOCKET -M $FCGI_MODE -u $FCGI_USER -U $FCGI_USER<br />
-P $PIDFILE -- /usr/bin/php5-cgi"<br />
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