Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:36:27 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: ache@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache port and http://www.vex.net/php/ Message-ID: <19970614213627.13806@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970614121028.6934A-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 12:13:59PM -0700 References: <19970614184643.55229@klemm.gtn.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970614121028.6934A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 12:13:59PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote:
>
> ...
> > Although I'm nearly finished with the port as stand alone cgi
> > program, I'd like to follow the suggestions of the author, to run
> > it as an apache module.
>
> There are some security problems with the cgi module. It should only be
> used as last resort. I would recommend that the cgi php module be NOT
> included into the ports collection, lest someone have their system broken
> into, because of it. The apache module is avoids this problem.
Ah, good to know !
> There was some discussion about the security problems with the cgi
> module on the postgresql mailing list.
Thanks for the info.
> Also, if included as port, which database would php be built for?
> Wouldn't you need to make two ports? One for php-postresql and one for
> php-msql?
I'd suggest to compile in support for all known databases or to
try to make it a compile time option
make apache MODULES=php DATABASE=postgres95
or something like this. Any volunteer for this ?! I'm currently
updating the postgresql port.
Andreas ///
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