Thank you, everyone, for your input/feedback on the "experimental" issue. After investigating the message thread provided by John Nichel (thank you, John), it appears that the only experimental aspects of PHP 4.x and Apache 2 are related to Apache's threading MPMs and the libraries they use, which may not be thread-safe. Since the stock Apache/PHP configuration that comes with RH 8.0 does not use a threaded MPM (it used the prefork MPM, which makes Apache 2 operate like Apache 1), the vendors claim to non-support of "experimental" configurations has been debunked. Onward we go with our debugging efforts... -----Original Message----- From: John Nichel [mailto:jnichel@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:09 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Apache 2.0.40 and PHP 4.2.2 Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:53, John Nichel wrote: > >>Jason Dixon wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:17, John Nichel wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>But the PHP group strongly recommends that you do NOT use any version of >>>>PHP with Apache2 in a production enviroment. They recommend that you >>>>stick with the 1.3.x versions of Apache. >>> >>> >>>Makes sense, but neither LCL nor the the 3rd party company has mentioned >>>which versions of which packages are "experimental". We're running a >>>little short on details. >>> >> >>According to the PHP website.... >> >>"Do not use Apache 2.0 and PHP in a production environment neither on >>Unix nor on Windows." >> >>I don't link the RPM version/package makes any difference. I can't >>remember exactly why, but I think it had something to do with >>multi-threading. > > > Has anyone had problems with this? I installed a RHL 9 server months > ago that is being used extensively with php and mysql and they have > reported no problems. Has RH removed the offending code that causes > problems? > > Bret To my understanding, it's not a Red Hat (or Linux, or Windows, etc) problem. I think it has to do with the way Apache 2 handles threads vs. 3 party modules in php. Here's one of the conversations that took place on the php list (Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of php is involved in the discussion).... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=104323013713026&w=2 -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
