Using PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) to run web pages and web applications has many advantages, especially when compared to older techniques such as PHP running as an Apache module. One of the most important benefits is that PHP-FPM significantly improves performance and scalability by allowing finer-grained management and optimization of PHP processes. In this way, we can use the server's resources more efficiently, reduce the response time, and our system can remain stable even in the event of heavy traffic. However, over time, the PHP versions of our web applications may become outdated, which the various control panels do not update. In this description, we will see in a few steps how we can easily modify our manual settings so that our websites and web applications also work with the correct PHP version.

In this description, we will install the PHP 8.2 version on a Debian system, set the default PHP versions, set it as an optional PHP version in the ISPConfig control panel, set it in the required storage locations and finally check the PHP operation on a Drupal and a WordPress site.

With the help of LAMP systems, we can run dynamic websites on our server or even on our home computer. In this description, we will create a LAMP server on the Debian 11 (Bullseye) operating system, on which the following components will be installed: Apache 2.4.54, MariaDB 10.5.15, PHP 7.4 and phpMyAdmin 5.0.4, UFW firewall.

PHP is one of the most common server-side scripting languages ​​for building dynamic web pages, making it an essential part of our web server. The latest major version of this, PHP 2020, was released on November 26, 8. In this tutorial, we will look at how to install PHP 8 on an Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) LAMP server and a Debian 10 (Stretch) perfect server, and how to you can configure it to work in both systems in the Apache environment.

The Matomo (formerly Piwik) web analytics system is a high-quality statistical tool that provides us with a detailed and comprehensive view of our website traffic. I have previously described how to install and deploy Matomo software on your own server, and in this tutorial we will review how to upgrade your web analytics system to the recently released 4.x major version. The web statistics program also contains many new features, but in this description we do not focus on these, but we satisfy the software requirements for the new main version so that the system can continue to operate stably. On this page we will make the necessary settings before the update and update Matomo.

If you run multiple websites on your server, you may need to run a different version of PHP for each website. When using ISPConfig, this is a very simple task, as the control panel can run multiple versions of PHP at the same time. In this tutorial, we will review how to configure PHP instances installed on a server in FastCGI and PHP-FPM modes.

With the help of LAMP systems, we can run dynamic web pages on our server or even on our home computer. In this description, we create a LAMP server for Debian 10 (Buster) with the following components: MariaDB 10.3.18, Apache 2.4.38, PHP 7.3 and phpMyAdmin 4.9.1. On this page we install the Apache, MariaDB and PHP components.