Re: Veracity of statement that FastCGI is always enabled cannot be disabled in PHP 5.3

[Ryan Schmidt <php-2009c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Following up to my own post for anyone interested in the outcome:


On Jul 2, 2009, at 08:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> So I believe the statement "FastCGI is now always enabled" is  
> false, because FastCGI is not enabled if you request an Apache  
> SAPI. And I believe the statement that it "can not be disabled" is  
> false, because the --disable-cgi configure argument does disable  
> it. I believe the correct documentation of PHP 5.3's capabilities  
> would be, "The FastCGI module is now built by default, but can be  
> disabled by using --disable-cgi".

Via private mail I was asked to re-post this to the internals list,  
where I received the response that these statements were meant to be  
taken with respect to the CGI SAPI, not PHP as a whole. Thus, if you  
now build the PHP CGI SAPI, you will always get the FastCGI version;  
you can no longer get the plain-CGI version. However, the  
restrictions on when you can build the CGI SAPI at all are the same  
as in previous versions.

http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=124669326803150&w=2


> P.S: There is a typo on the mailing lists page's description of  
> this list. It says "How to install PHP with partiucular  
> configurations, and servers". That should be "particular" not  
> "partiucular" and the comma should be removed.

This has been corrected.