Getting Drupal 7 (almost) running on HHVM

In analogy to the article of the hiphop-php.com site, I'll try to give you a tutorial on how to run Drupal on HHVM

Installing HHVM

For the sake of this case-study, I used a Vagrant Ubuntu “Precise” 12.04 as my linux distribution. Also, to not screw up my local development machine, I'll be using disposable virtual boxes.

Installing VirtualBox

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Download and install the appropriate version of VirtualBox for your machine

Installing Vagrant

http://vagrantup.com/ Download and install the appropriate version of Vagrant for your machine

Downloading and Installing Precise64

cd ~/
git clone --recursive --branch 7.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/project/vagrant.git
cd vagrant
vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box
vagrant up
sudo nano /etc/hosts
# add 
# 33.33.33.10        drupal.vbox.local dev-site.vbox.local
vagrant ssh
# Update our packages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
exit
# After updates, run chef again
vagrant provision

Installing hiphop-php

cd ~/vagrant
vagrant ssh
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://dl.hiphop-php.com/ubuntu precise main"
# no sources are present in hiphops repository, so remove them
sudo add-apt-repository --remove "deb-src http://dl.hiphop-php.com/ubuntu"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hiphop-php -y --force-yes
exit

Create a config file

cd ~/vagrant
vagrant ssh
sudo mkdir /var/log/hhvm
sudo chmod 777 /var/log/hhvm/
sudo nano /etc/hhvm.hdf

Add the following snippet and save the file (/etc/hhvm.hdf)

Server {
  Port = 8000
  SourceRoot = /vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/
}
 
Eval {
  Jit = true
}
Log {
  Level = Error
  UseLogFile = true
  File = /var/log/hhvm/error.log
  Access {
    * {
      File = /var/log/hhvm/access.log
      Format = %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b
    }
  }
}
 
VirtualHost {
  * {
    Pattern = .*
    RewriteRules {
      dirindex {
        pattern = ^/(.*)/$
        to = $1/index.php
        qsa = true
      }
    }
  }
}
 
StaticFile {
  FilesMatch {
    * {
      pattern = .*\.(dll|exe)
      headers {
        * = Content-Disposition: attachment
      }
    }
  }
  Extensions {
    css = text/css
    gif = image/gif
    html = text/html
    jpe = image/jpeg
    jpeg = image/jpeg
    jpg = image/jpeg
    png = image/png
    tif = image/tiff
    tiff = image/tiff
    txt = text/plain
  }
}

Start the webserver

cd ~/vagrant
vagrant ssh
# Adding some debug modes
sudo hhvm --config /etc/hhvm.hdf --user vagrant --mode daemon -v "Log.Level=Verbose" -v "Log.NoSilencer=on" -v "Log.Header=on"
tail -f /var/log/hhvm/error.log

Go to http://drupal.vbox.local:8000/index.php in your browser
You can see a couple of errors in the terminal but none of them really are significant.

[Fri Nov 30 12:07:27 2012] [hphp] [2544:7fe6eaf40dc0:0:000015] [] admin server started
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:27 2012] [hphp] [2544:7fe6eaf40dc0:0:000016] [] all servers started
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:27 2012] [hphp] [2544:518f3700:0:000001] [] perf_event_open failed with: No such file or directory
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:27 2012] [hphp] [2544:518f3700:0:000002] [] perf_event_open failed with: No such file or directory
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:27 2012] [hphp] [2544:518f3700:0:000003] [] perf_event_open failed with: No such file or directory
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:30 2012] [hphp] [2544:5254c700:0:000001] [] perf_event_open failed with: No such file or directory
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:30 2012] [hphp] [2544:5254c700:0:000002] [] perf_event_open failed with: No such file or directory
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:30 2012] [hphp] [2544:5254c700:0:000003] [] perf_event_open failed with: No such file or directory
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:30 2012] [hphp] [2544:5254c700:1:000001] [] receiving index.php
[Fri Nov 30 12:07:30 2012] [hphp] [2544:5254c700:1:000002] [7fe6e4d5f4c0:7fe6e4d5f445:7fe6e4d62bab:7fe6e4d5810e:7fe6e4d581b2:b0d80d:114c70b:1154cd6:1359eab:d814db:d390b5:d391e8:d3943e:d39e5e:d3a064:c4af2e:b08ffb:b1ae95:b7fdc0:c14c9c:c02c06:c0529e:f9e1ca:f9e3d9:7fe6e83f7e9a:7fe6e4e1b4bd] Core dumped: Aborted

So I went looking for errors and found the following in /tmp/stacktrace-PID.log

Host: precise64
ProcessID: 2544
ThreadID: 5254c700
ThreadPID: 2553
Name: unknown program
Type: Aborted
 
URL: /index.php
ThreadType: Web Request
Server: drupal.vbox.local:8000
 
# 0  ?? at hhvm:0
# 1  killpg at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
# 2  raise at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
# 3  abort at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
# 4  __uselocale at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
# 5  __assert_fail at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
# 6  ?? at hhvm:0
# 7  ?? at hhvm:0
# 8  HPHP::c_PDO::t_prepare(HPHP::String const&, HPHP::Array const&) at hhvm:0
# 9  HPHP::tg_3PDO_prepare(HPHP::VM::ActRec*) at hhvm:0
# 10 void HPHP::VMExecutionContext::dispatchImpl<4>(int) at hhvm:0
# 11 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::dispatch() at hhvm:0
# 12 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::enterVMWork(HPHP::VM::ActRec*) at hhvm:0
# 13 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::enterVM(HPHP::TypedValue*, HPHP::VM::ActRec*, HPHP::VM::ExtraArgs*) at hhvm:0
# 14 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::invokeFunc(HPHP::TypedValue*, HPHP::VM::Func const*, HPHP::Array const&, HPHP::ObjectData*, HPHP::VM::Class*, HPHP::VM::VarEnv*, HPHP::StringData*, HPHP::VM::Unit*) at hhvm:0
# 15 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::invokeUnit(HPHP::TypedValue*, HPHP::VM::Unit*) at hhvm:0
# 16 HPHP::eval_invoke_file_hook(HPHP::Variant&, HPHP::String const&, bool, HPHP::LVariableTable*, char const*) at hhvm:0
# 17 HPHP::invoke_file(HPHP::String const&, bool, HPHP::LVariableTable*, char const*) at hhvm:0
# 18 HPHP::include_impl_invoke(HPHP::String const&, bool, HPHP::LVariableTable*, char const*) at hhvm:0
# 19 HPHP::hphp_invoke(HPHP::ExecutionContext*, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, bool, HPHP::Array const&, HPHP::VRefParamValue const&, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::$
# 20 HPHP::HttpRequestHandler::handleRequest(HPHP::Transport*) at hhvm:0
# 21 HPHP::LibEventWorker::doJob(boost::shared_ptr<HPHP::LibEventJob>) at hhvm:0
# 22 HPHP::JobQueueWorker<boost::shared_ptr<HPHP::LibEventJob>, true, false>::start() at hhvm:0
# 23 HPHP::AsyncFuncImpl::threadFuncImpl() at hhvm:0
# 24 HPHP::AsyncFuncImpl::ThreadFunc(void*) at hhvm:0
# 25 start_thread at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0:0
# 26 __clone at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
 
PHP Stacktrace:
 
#0  PDO->prepare() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/database/database.inc:464]
#1  DatabaseConnection->prepareQuery() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/database/database.inc:663]
#2  DatabaseConnection->query() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/database/database.inc:2318]
#3  db_query() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/cache.inc:357]
#4  DrupalDatabaseCache->getMultiple() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/cache.inc:338]
#5  DrupalDatabaseCache->get() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/cache.inc:56]
#6  cache_get() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/bootstrap.inc:902]
#7  variable_initialize() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/bootstrap.inc:2403]
#8  _drupal_bootstrap_variables() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/bootstrap.inc:2180]
#9  drupal_bootstrap() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/bootstrap.inc:2301]
#10 _drupal_bootstrap_page_cache() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/includes/bootstrap.inc:2172]
#11 drupal_bootstrap() called at [/vagrant/public/drupal.vbox.local/www/index.php:20]

So I suppose HHVM is not ready for PDO yet? I'd appreciate more input from people that are more knowledgable.

I think this is where my adventure with HHVM ends for now :-)

Nick

Friday, November 30, 2012 - 11:44

Comments

Hey there! I'm the person at

On 2 Dec 2012, Sara Golemon said...

Hey there! I'm the person at Facebook who does the OSS maintenance for HipHop, and it's great to see you trying us out. ((Not so great to see that you got a segfault though)).

I'm going to try reproducing the segfault you're getting and will let you know what I find. Hopefully it's a minor problem. :)

D6 isn't much better. Strange

On 4 Dec 2012, Dave said...

D6 isn't much better. Strange that there wasn't a php stacktrace...

<code>
Host: ubuntu-12
ProcessID: 8271
ThreadID: 52c48700
ThreadPID: 8279
Name: unknown program
Type: Segmentation fault
Runtime: hhvm
Version: heads/master-0-g5c736b05b0ec3289c11448c23b7893dfe47eeaff

URL: /install.php?profile=default&locale=en
ThreadType: Web Request
Server: 172.31.31.45:8000

# 0 ?? at hhvm:0
# 1 killpg at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0
# 2 void HPHP::VMExecutionContext::dispatchImpl<4>(int) at hhvm:0
# 3 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::dispatch() at hhvm:0
# 4 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::enterVMWork(HPHP::VM::ActRec*) at hhvm:0
# 5 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::enterVM(HPHP::TypedValue*, HPHP::VM::ActRec*, HPHP::VM::ExtraArgs*) at hhvm:0
# 6 HPHP::VMExecutionContext::invokeFunc(HPHP::TypedValue*, HPHP::VM::Func const*, HPHP::Array const&, HPHP::ObjectData*, HPHP::VM::Class*, HPHP::VM::VarEnv*, HPHP::StringData*, HPHP::VM::Unit*) at hhvm:0
# 7 HPHP::vm_call_user_func(HPHP::Variant const&, HPHP::Array const&, bool) at hhvm:0
# 8 HPHP::f_call_user_func_array(HPHP::Variant const&, HPHP::Array const&, bool) at hhvm:0
# 9 HPHP::UserSessionModule::close() at hhvm:0
# 10 HPHP::SessionRequestData::requestShutdownImpl() at hhvm:0
# 11 HPHP::BaseExecutionContext::onRequestShutdown() at hhvm:0
# 12 HPHP::hphp_context_exit(HPHP::ExecutionContext*, bool, bool, char const*) at hhvm:0
# 13 HPHP::HttpRequestHandler::handleRequest(HPHP::Transport*) at hhvm:0
# 14 HPHP::LibEventWorker::doJob(boost::shared_ptr<HPHP::LibEventJob>) at hhvm:0
# 15 HPHP::JobQueueWorker<boost::shared_ptr<HPHP::LibEventJob>, true, false>::start() at hhvm:0
# 16 HPHP::AsyncFuncImpl::threadFuncImpl() at hhvm:0
# 17 HPHP::AsyncFuncImpl::ThreadFunc(void*) at hhvm:0
# 18 start_thread at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0:0
# 19 __clone at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:0

PHP Stacktrace:
</code>

Found this userful

On 18 Dec 2012, mikeytown2 said...

Found this userful stackoverflow topic on this issue:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13636790/does-hhvm-hiphop-support-postgresql-arbitary-pecl-extensions

Hey guys,

On 21 Dec 2012, patcon said...

Hey guys,

Worked through the wordpress example myself, and finally got it working. Not sure if you guys came across this:
http://php.webtutor.pl/en/2011/05/19/drupal-7-download-hiphop-for-phps-compatible-source-codes/

While it seems to have been compiled with a deprecated version of hiphop, there is a patch that theoretically works with Drupal 7.4? I was unable to get it working, but think maybe we could put together a vagrant box that does all the manual setup, and that might help us get on the same page with sorting this out?

And Sara Goleman, came across your blog while creeping on the project in general, and just wanted to say that you're awesome in all respects.

Any help would be really

On 14 Sep 2013, Success Ezine said...

Any help would be really appreciated.

Seems it now works a lot

On 29 Sep 2013, Jeroen Beerstra said...

Seems it now works a lot better, the problem now is stream_wrappers:

They seem to register but hhvm complains about not being able to create <your webroot>/public, that should translate to the public files dir.

Hey Nick, thanks for

On 18 Jul 2014, penyaskito said...

Hey Nick, thanks for documenting this.
Tried this and didn't work (yet). Just saw that it's from 2012.
HHVM > 3.0.0 no longer supports built-in server, I'll try with FastCGI instead.

Nick Veenhof

Getting Drupal 7 (almost) running on HHVM

Installing HHVM

Installing VirtualBox

Installing Vagrant

Downloading and Installing Precise64

Installing hiphop-php

Create a config file

Start the webserver

Comments

Hey there! I'm the person at

D6 isn't much better. Strange

Found this userful

Hey guys,

Any help would be really

Seems it now works a lot

Hey Nick, thanks for

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Getting Drupal 7 (almost) running on HHVM

Installing HHVM

Installing VirtualBox

Installing Vagrant

Downloading and Installing Precise64

Installing hiphop-php

Create a config file

Start the webserver

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