* Taksam <taksam_tong@xxxxxxxxx>: > I finally installed Apache 1.3.3 and PHP 5.0.4 engine and made my > first PHP page and it works! thanks for your help! And didn't use an > IDE, just UltraEdit :) but, I WILL use and IDE someday anyway. The beauty of PHP (and most scripting languages) is that you don't need an IDE ever. A good editor with syntax highlighting will get you where you need to go reliably. I use vim. > Now, my question is: can I use Apache version 2 with PHP? And, even if > I can use it in my development environment... is it safe to use Apache > 2+PHP in a production environment? Yes. But there *are* issues with it. The biggest thing Apache2 introduced was threaded processes. Unfortunately, PHP isn't necessarily threadsafe -- not all of the libraries it can be compiled are threadsafe, and many are in a state where thread status is simply unknown. (My understanding is that the PHP core is probably threadsafe; it's the extensions -- database, mail, etc --- that you can't be sure of. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.) The upshot is that when compiling PHP to work with Apache2, you have to compile it to work without threads -- which means that, in the end, there are no performance gains, and, in most instances, PHP performance actually suffers under Apache2 (up to 30% decrease). John Coggeshall announced today that he is going to work to get PHP completely threadsafe, but my guess is that this will likely be a late version of PHP 5.1, if not even another minor version (5.2, 5.3) before it's complete. By the way -- I'm hoping you meant Apache 1.3.33, and not Apache 1.3.3... ;-) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Zend Certified Engineer http://weierophinney.net/matthew/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
