installing HHVM on CentOS 6.5

I've only been able to get HHVM working on Debian / Ubuntu so far, using the pre-built packages. I was running it on Ubuntu with 8GB RAM, and after 6 hours, it ate ALL the RAM on the server, forked, and died. Swapped to php-fpm and no issues since.

 

HipHop Fatal error: PCRE cache full · Issue #1651 · facebook/hhvm · GitHub
Case of you do?

 

me the testing successful in the centminmod 08 / centos 7 . working

 

With HHVM 3.3.0 released which includes LTS are there any news about the integration/usage with centminmod? If setup wouldn't be that complicated on CentOS or if someone could provide working setup/build instructions for CentOS 6.5 i'd love to replace php-fpm myself. Performing tests on other machines and setups i could see a performance boost of 3x. Looking into that should be a lot more worth than testing PHP NG for example. HHVM is production ready (but might not be suited for every custom applciation).

 

Thanks! I'll try to build and use it in combination with the .08 beta.

For people finding this thread who would like to test HHVM (3.2.0) on CentOS 6.5 i'll append a "quick and dirty" way. Please be aware that this is no production ready installation instruction and i would be glad if we could write up something together to be able to have a setup process which can be used by everyone who would like to run HHVM in a production environment. I'm to inexperienced to get this done myself.

Please check:

and Framework test coverage before considering to use HHVM.

Usage:
1. Install EPEL repository

Code:

cd /tmp
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm

2. Install HHVM

Code:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
sudo wget http://www.hop5.in/yum/el6/hop5.repo
yum clean all
yum install hhvm

Enter "hhvm --version" to see the installed version.

3. Follow the instructions to install centminmod outlined here:
Centmin Mod FAQ - Menu based Nginx installer

4. Create a HHVM config and edit your vhost config

Code:

nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/hhvm.conf

>>INSERT>>
location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {
    fastcgi_keep_conn on;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include        fastcgi_params;
}
<<<<

vhostconf

>>EDIT/INSERT>>
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
include /usr/local/nginx/conf/hhvm.conf;
<<<<

5. Stop php-fpm

Code:

service php-fpm stop
chkconfig php-fpm off

6. Start HHVM

Code:

hhvm --mode daemon -vServer.Type=fastcgi -vServer.Port=9000

7. Restart nginx

Code:

ngxrestart

8. Check if everything is working

Code:

cd /usr/local/nginx/html
nano index.php

>>INSERT>>
<?php phpinfo();
<<<<

Open *your-server-ip*.tld/index.php within your browser and you should see "HipHop".

 

I got HHVM working using centos 6.5 and CM beta 2 using the directions above. Then installed WordPress and it worked well except a few tweaks need to be made. When uploading a new plugin/theme it says to put in the FTP info regardless that I have the files
chown nginx:nginx

Is their a fix for this? Searching Google returned nothing. Anyone successfully installed WP w/ centmin mod yet?

 

That did work George! Thank You! However, testing HHVM + WordPress + PageSpeed crashed nginx so PageSpeed does not work with HHVM - But it is MUCH faster when using HHVM. It's incredibly fast.

 

Ow, HHVM still performs top 1.
Lockdown Results and HHVM Performance « HHVM

 

I have it on someone's VPS installed using PHP 7 and WP site, now for some reason all pages gets blank after he did something I don't know.

I assume it's PHP 7 bug, so I downgraded to PHP 5.6 and problem solve right away.
So not really ready for production site