As lots of blogs and tutorial wrote, Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a high-performance HTTP server. The most great and important feature from Nginx is low resource consumption. So that, you can allocated your RAM Memory to other process such as MySQL or Memcached. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 9.10 server with PHP5 support through FastCGI (spawn-fcgi).

Spawn FastCGI (spawn-fcgi) (http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi) is a project originally to support Lihttpd. On lots of tutorial and how to, if we want to configuring Nginx and FastCGI, we have also install lighttpd to get spawn-fcgi package. At that time there was still no standalone package for spawn-fcgi. Fortunately since version 9.10 ( or 9.04) Ubuntu provide a standalone spawn-fcgi on they’re repository. So that, you don’t have to install Lighttpd anymore. Lets start it!
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