Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:00:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: "Christopher Hilton" <chris@vindaloo.com> Cc: bob@a1poweruser.com, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Php5 port and Apache Module Message-ID: <49217.192.168.125.81.1181426436.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <466B17E6.9000906@vindaloo.com> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBIEGGCDAA.bob@a1poweruser.com> <466B17E6.9000906@vindaloo.com>
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> Bob wrote: >> The php4 & php5 port apache module used to be default before FBSD 6.0. >> Many people before you on this list have wanted the php4/5 apache module >> turned back on as default but so far the port maintainer has not done >> anything >> in any way of justifying removing the apache module from the default setting >> or re-enable it as the default. >> >> This has forced all php4/5 users who want to use php in apache to compile it >> manually with the apache module option selected during the make install of >> the port. >> When it was part of the default the php4/5 package was so quick to install >> and ready to work with apache without any special handling. >> >> Hope you have better luck finding the justification for it being removed >> from the default. >> >> > > I've been operating under the assumption that: > > There is some configuration you can do in > /usr/local/etc/apache*/httpd.conf to get apache to use the CGI version > of php; > > That this can be done without requiring a shebang (#! ...) line at the > beginning of every php script; > > And that using php as a CGI script offers better performance than > running it as an apache module. > > Looking on the internet though I cannot seem to find a set of > instructions for configuring php-cgi in apache2. And once I do find the > configuration I'll have to have a shebang at the start of every php > module. Further all the performance comparisons that I've seen seem show > that the performance of php as a FastCGI script and as an Apache Module > are about equal. > > I don't want to get into a war. I'm still assuming that the port > maintainer knows something that I don't. If I cannot get this running > soon I guess that I will go back to mod_php5 and revisit this later. > > -- Chris > > -- > __o "All I was doing was trying to get home from work." > _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks > ___(*)/_(*)___________________________________________________________ > Christopher Sean Hilton <chris | at | vindaloo.com> > pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14 > _______________________________________________ seems like it was removed from the default config of lang/php5 for security reasons. many people who do build php5 do not need the apache module, so no sense building it if its not needed. cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make config (edit your choices) make deinstall make reinstall its just one of those things that you learn to live with after a while. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne freebsd@dfwlp.com http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
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