PHP support

Ferron supports running PHP scripts either with a cgi module (using PHP-CGI) or with a fcgi module (using either PHP-CGI configured as a FastCGI server or PHP-FPM). This allows you to host websites built with PHP-based CMSes (like WordPress or Joomla) with Ferron.

To configure PHP through CGI with Ferron, you can use this configuration:

# Example global configuration with PHP through CGI
global:
  wwwroot: /var/www/html # Replace it with the path to the webroot
  loadModules:
    - cgi
  cgiScriptExtensions:
    - .php

To configure PHP through FastCGI with Ferron, you can use this configuration:

# Example global configuration with PHP through FastCGI
global:
  wwwroot: /var/www/html # Replace it with the path to the webroot
  loadModules:
    - fcgi
  fcgiScriptExtensions:
    - .php
  fcgiTo: unix:///run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock # Replace with the Unix socket URL with actual path to the PHP FastCGI daemon socket.

To ensure optimal web server performance and efficiency, it is recommended to use FastCGI instead of CGI, as FastCGI keeps PHP processes running persistently, reducing the overhead of starting a new process for each request, therefore improving response times and resource utilization.