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good_evening
good_evening

Reputation: 21759

What is the difference between Nginx and Apache?

I don't quite get what is the difference between Nginx and Apache?

I want to use PHP Comet technique for the chat. I do like that:

while($modification_date == filemtime($filename)) { 
    sleep(2); 
}

//$filename was updated and we retrieve new messages and give them to the user with JSON help

It of course doesn't work in Apache. Will it work in Nginx?

Do not offer me NodeJS and other, please.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2607

Answers (2)

Kendall Hopkins
Kendall Hopkins

Reputation: 44124

Nginx doesn't automagically make that code work. It will suck equally as bad as it did in Apache. The main problem is that PHP isn't threadsafe and each request needs one forked PHP proc to handle the request. This translates into insanely large amounts of needed RAM to scale to anything of decent size. Nginx can get around this problem by a different style of programming (comet) and the help of an extension.

Upvotes: 1

Rifat
Rifat

Reputation: 7748

Main difference between Apache and Nginx is one is thread driven and another is event driven. But, I think your question is not clear. They have nothing to do with your code snippet. And first explain why It'll not work in Apache.

Upvotes: 2

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