Re: Apache 2 and PHP stable yet?

Randell D. wrote:
> Basically, is Apache 2 officially supported with PHP, and if so, which
> version of PHP?

As far as I know no versions of PHP officially supports Apache 2. The
SAPI modules are still marked "experimental" in the most current source
code.

> The last I heard the PHP website had Apache 2 with PHP4 running for
> something like two years, but the support was still not official for a
> production environment.

Well, that's PHP development for you. Apparently there are issues of
higher priority than actually getting the stuff to work in a production
environment.

> Thus - Is PHP still officially only supported on Apache 1.3? Or, which
> version of PHP is considered stable for Apache2.

The Apache 2 SAPI module has an ugly memory leak in versions prior to
4.3.9. One byte is lost for every byte sent to the web server. During
typical operation this doesn't have a large effect, as Apache restarts
each child process after it has handled a certain number of requests.
If a script outputs large amount of data (i.e. multi-megabyte file
downloads), then you have a problem.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:51:22 2006