… however only to serve static content, such as images. The requests asking for PHP files were passed down with proxy module to Apache listening … smaller data being sent through Lighttpd proxy. For example with a PHP script for handling larger file downloads which gets many concurrent requests.
Post: Speedup your LAMP stack with LigHTTPD
…proxy in front. You may configure other Apache server to use as reverse proxy, you may also use Squid, Lighttpd…to relieve Apache from serving static content – Proxy may be configured to handle only dynamic requests…
Post: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
… You can place squid in front, use apache proxy module or even use lighttpd with FastCGI all can fix this problem… more problems with it. Persistent connections were added to PHP during times of MySQL 3.22/3.23 … fresh connection ID so if you track web requests in MySQL Logs by connection ID it would …

