8.3. Choosing a Webserver
Which webserver should you use when building your appliance? In this section we'll review several webservers suitable for Linux appliances.
8.3.1. Choices
Webservers come in several different flavors. Many support the CGI interface, which allows the webserver to spawn an arbitrary process to generate the web page content on behalf of the webserver.
The Apache webserver can be compiled with a PHP interpreter so that PHP scripts are interpreted within the Apache process. This approach reduces inter-process communication and improves response time.
The lighttpd webserver supports the FastCGI interface. The FastCGI mechanism spawns multiple PHP interpreters and load balances requests for PHP web pages between them. For more information, ...
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