php-fpm or public folder ?

I find confusing that Laracast documentation on Deployement (sorry no link permitted) explains with Ngix (exit apache :/ ) server configuration using PHP-fpm pointing to index . php while every other tutorials I can find points DocumentRoot to the public folder and that's it. No use of PHP-fpm..

Does it make a difference not to use PHP-fpm ? (performance ??) Is it impossible with apache ??!?

Thanks for any insights

wonderyan

5 years ago

Level 1

Ok I understood :

There is a .htaccess in public folder that redirects everything to index . php

And so of course php-fpm is required in apache virtualhost config

I understand also why Ngix is primarily described in the documentation; to explain the redirection that is already made for apache.

But it would be nice to explain the trick for apache anyway (which is used by 33% of all the www!...) ?

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