-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: February 1, 2006 2:12 PM
To: CentOS ML
Subject: Re: Apache 2.x and php???
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 15:50 -0500, jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My understanding is that it is not recommended to run PHP with Apache
> 2 - unless Apache 2 is run in prefork mode. This is because many
> popular PHP libraries are not thread safe (although PHP itself is.)
> The stock CentOS Apache is in prefork mode I believe and that is why
> there are no problems.
>
> Apache prefork:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/prefork.html
>
> PHP manual warning about Apache 2 in threaded mode:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/
> faq.installation.php#faq.installation.apache2
>
> That is true ... the centos apache is defaulted that way.
Is that any different from the YUM install? Or does YUM also default to
prefork?
James
