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Re: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4 ?



On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 04:34, iudicium ferat wrote:
> Was looking over a new server install and I see:
> 
> php4-cgi for DEBIAN
> ----------------------
> 
> This package contains both runtime and cgi versions of php4.
> 
> php4-cgi and apache
> -------------------
> 
> If you want to use php4-cgi in apache
> 1) activate mod_action
> 2) add
> Action application/x-httpd-php /cgi-bin/php4
>     into apache config file
> 
> Problem with php4-cgi
> ---------------------
> 
> Q: PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start session mm module in Unknown 
> on line 0
> 
> A: Remove /tmp/session_mm.sem or give access permission to the user 
> running php4.
> 
> 
> Wouldn't having the php4 binary in the CGI-BIN be as dangerous as 
> having the Perl binary there ?
> What be the advantage of having enabled php4-cgi anyway?

php in cgi mode is used by isp's for reasons like a crash in php in
php-cgi mode does not chrashes the web-server, and some others.

there have been some problems with sessions with php on sparc machines
till version 4.2.3 (?) I think.

bye
-- 
Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz, University of Applied Sciences Esslingen, Germany
<hakan@php.net>  |  <hakan@lisas.de>  |




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