Useful for Lighttpd and IIS FastCGI runs as a daemon: Process control by the webserver Request logic through the FastCGI module fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => (( "bin-path" => "/usr/local/php/5.3dev/bin/php-cgi", "socket" => "/tmp/php80.socket", "max-procs" => 1, "idle-timeout" => 20, "bin-environment" => ( "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "1", "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "10000" ), "bin-copy-environment" => ( "PATH", "SHELL", "USER" ), "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable" )) )