Question What's the purpose of "mod_fcgid" (can be chosen in Plesk installer)? PHP?

[King555]

You can install "mod_fcgid" in the Plesk installer. Does this has to do something with PHP? Every installed (and in Plesk registered) PHP version has three modes, FPM, FastCGI and CGI (and a very old version has mod_php). I only enabled "FPM". Do I need mod_fcgid then?

Or does this only has do to with the "FastCGI support" setting in the hosting settings per domain (which I disabled, because I do not know what this is and PHP support is already activated)?

EDIT: Now I see that I posted into the wrong forum, I use Plesk Obsidian. But I guess the answer should be the same for older versions.

 

[IgorG]

You can read more about the differences and purposes of PHP handler types here PHP Handler Types

 

[King555]

Thanks, but I'm unsure whether this is really an answer to my question.

The real question is: What is mod_fcgid? Is this is one of the PHP handlers (FastCGI, FPM)? Or is this for the setting "FastCGI support", which can be activated additionally to PHP support (which can be configured as CGI, FastCGI and FPM)?

 

[IgorG]

It is an alternative FastCGI module for Apache2.
In fact, mod_fcgid is a binary compatibility alternative to Apache module mod_fastcgi.
mod_fcgid has a new process management strategy, which concentrates on reducing the number of fastcgi server, and kick out the corrupt fastcgi server as soon as possible.

 

[King555]

Thanks. But is it used when I choose the PHP handler "FastCGI" or when I enable "FastCGI support"? I'm talking of the hosting settings per website. These settings can be enabled/disabled separately and independently.

EDIT: I guess it's not used when I choose "FPM" as the PHP handler, right? Which probably would mean that editing the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/fcgid.conf for increasing the timeout is wrong for FPM.

 

[Cong Minh Vuong]

Hello. Disabling fcgid does not affect FPM.

You can disable it and we will use FPM as the main method. You should also reboot after removing mod_fcgid.