Topic: How to prevent switch to from "fpm-fcgi" to "

[20160413]

I have had a pretty awkward experience:

I set my Apache webserver up to use "fpm-fcgi" instead of "apache2handler". So far so good.

Then sometime later I did a general server update with

apt update;apt full-upgrade

As part of the general update, the Apache webserver was updated. This caused the Apache webserver to automatically or unknowingly to me switch from "fpm-fcgi" to "apache2handler". I only realized a couple of weeks later that this happened.

After doing the following process now

sudo systemctl stop apache2
sudo a2dismod php7.4
sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork
sudo a2enmod mpm_event

I am back on "fpm-fcgi".

However, I am pretty puzzled about how this can happen. Is there a way of preventing this?

Moreover, the "libapache2-mod-php" package, which I figured is compulsory for running "apache2handler" for PHP is not installed on the server which makes me wonder even more.

Any comment on this mess I am experiencing? Thanks a lot and cheers

[James Blond]

I think the maintainer of your Linux distro prefers to use mod_php aka apache2handler with mpm_prefork.

[jfha73]

When I had that problem, I noticed that even though libapache2-mod-php was not installed, libapache2-mod-php7.4 (or any other version) was, so i suggest to do a: apt search libapache2-mod-php to see if it shows any version installed and uninstall it.

[20160413]