Brendan Gallagher writes
Friday evening here (west coast USA), Saturday evening in New Zealand. Chris Cormack was showing quite a few of the developers that hang out in the IRC #koha channel - his testing database of koha - fed through nginx and FastCGI.
I could not get it to run with Apache's mod_fcgi http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2010-April/011153.html
I was absolutely amazed at the speed that pages from the opac were being delivered and watching some of the tests with speed comparisons between apache and nginx. I want to learn more. So, I would like to propose or maybe ask chris - if he would schedule a time that he could demo or even give a tutorial on nginx and FastCGI on the IRC channel (which is a good medium because those who can't make it will be able to read the logs). I am hoping that others get encouraged and want to investigate the possibilities.
Does the speed increase come more from FastCGI or more from using nginx instead of Apache? I generally don't like Apache, but using a different web server means finding a box where you run just that server or convert all servers to the alternative servers. Both approaches are costly. I could give it a try to get it to run if Chris posts his nginx vhost file. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel