[WBEL-users] PHP and Apache 2.0

Andy industrial_soup@dynacomp.net
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:43:45 -0400


Thanks everybody for the clarification! It's too easy to get us newbs 
scared :-)

Andy

Edward Rudd wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:17, Andy wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>When surfing through PHP docs I came across a page describing problems 
>>PHP is having with Apache 2.0. In summary, Apache 2.0 is threaded, PHP 
>>is not thread safe. The page further elaborates on the compile-time 
>>parameters that I'm not really familiar with. The page in question is 
>>found here http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache2.php
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>This is FUD..  There are some issues with PHP not working nicely if you
>Apache 2 is build with threading, but the default mode on linux for
>apache 2 is preforking which is the same as Apache 1.3.
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>>Can someone please confirm that this is indeed how httpd is compiled in 
>>the stock WBEL rpm? I know that in Debian there are multiple httpd 
>>packages to choose from, but WBEL has just one.
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>WBEL's httpd is compiled in "prefork" mode which. (--with-mpm=prefork)
>you can also download the WBEL httpd src.rpm file and look at the spec
>file contained as to the compile options.
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>>I would hate to have to compile Apache 1.3 every time I want to use PHP :-(
>>
>>Thank you for your help!
>>
>>Andy
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