Thx for the patch... I'll take a look. On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Blaise Tarr <blaise.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > The attached patch adds support for Unix domain sockets (UDS) to > mod_proxy. This is very beneficial when configuring a reverse proxy > using mod_proxy_fcgi to connect to PHP-FPM. In some tests with ab > there was over 20% improvement in the request rate when using a UDS > instead of TCP. > > Since remote servers in mod_proxy are configured with a URL, I took > the idea from this page on how to represent a UDS as a URL: > http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/04/14/http-over-unix-domain-sockets/ > > So the host portion of the URL contains "socket=" followed by the URI > encoded socket path (upper case characters must be encoded too). Below > are a couple of examples where PHP-FPM's socket is /tmp/php-fpm.sock > and the document root is /local/htdocs: > > ProxyPass fcgi://socket=%2ftmp%2fphp-fpm.sock/local/htdocs/ > > RewriteRule (.*\.php) fcgi://socket=\%2ftmp\%2fphp-fpm.sock/local/htdocs/$1 > [P,L] > > The following are not contained in the patch: > * bump MMN due to mod_proxy.h changes > * assign APLOGNO numbers > * detection of AF_UNIX support in configure > > Thanks for your consideration, > Blaise > <proxy-uds.patch>
