HHVM as PHP script execution mode

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#1 Wed, 12/18/2013 - 06:25

fuerst

HHVM as PHP script execution mode

Newest hot stuff from Facebook's HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine for PHP) is to run PHP scripts through HHVM using FastCGI. That's a huge performance win for any supported PHP application. See http://www.hhvm.com/blog/1817/fastercgi-with-hhvm for a comparison of performance using Wordpress.

Would be really nice if we could choose HHVM as another PHP script execution mode in virtual servers Website Options. What do you think?

#2 Wed, 12/18/2013 - 06:40

Locutus

They say that "HHVM" uses PHP opcode caching. So I'd be interested how HHVM fares compared to Apache with FastCGI and e.g. XCache active. Otherwise it's a very unfair comparison.

Also, introducing a new PHP execution mode is a rather big step and requires very careful testing, for compatibility, interoperability and security in a Virtualmin environment.

#3 Mon, 07/07/2014 - 14:20

micfai

I'm currently using Nginx and HHVM with Virtualmin. I had to edit the file "/usr/share/webmin/virtualmin-nginx/virtual_feature.pl" in order for it to default to HHVM but it works well and I have no issues with it.

Here are the edits I made starting with line 247:

       my $ploc = { 'name' => 'location',
              'words' => [ '~', '\.(hh|php)$' ],
               'type' => 1,
                 'members' => [
                { 'name' => 'fastcgi_keep_conn',
                  'words' => ['on'],
                },
             { 'name' => 'fastcgi_pass',
                  'words' => ['127.0.0.1:9000'],
              },
                { 'name' => 'fastcgi_index',
                  'words' => ['index.php'],
                },
                { 'name' => 'fastcgi_param',
                  'words' => ['SCRIPT_FILENAME', '$document_root$fastcgi_script_name'],
                },
                { 'name' => 'include',
                  'words' => ['fastcgi_params'],
                },
                ],
              };

#4 Thu, 07/31/2014 - 10:45

eddieb

i'd also like to use hhvm with apache on centos.

#5 Wed, 08/06/2014 - 09:49

mikt

But would that not mean that all the files are executed by whoever is running the hhvm process (in my case that would be www-data) and as such breaking the security on multiuser-systems?

Would it not be the better way to setup a user specific hhvm process per virtualmin hosted site? AFAIK this is the case with the fast-cgi processes currently in use.

#6 Wed, 08/06/2014 - 10:20

micfai

mikt,

Unfortunately you currently can't setup HHVM to run as user specific process per virtual server. I have been discussing this with the HHVM developers to get this implemented.

#7 Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:58

RealGecko

I`m interested in this feature too. My current setup is to run Nginx and FCGId. Switching to hhvm may be really nice performance boost.

#8 Fri, 09/12/2014 - 02:11

mikt

I now have hhvm running for each website - you need to do that manually - but it works fine!

#9 Fri, 09/12/2014 - 03:23

RealGecko

It would be nice to have this feature accessible through Virtualmin interface :)

#10 Sun, 01/18/2015 - 07:02

simber

any update on this?

#11 Sat, 04/18/2015 - 03:43

ADDISON74

HHVM has at least double in performance comparing with PHP5.6 + opcache enabled. In my opinion Virtualmin users need a solution for using HHVM as well as default setup. Please share your thoughts to find a way to get this working. Thank you.

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