Pim van Pelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > We've got apache2 and php4-apache2 packages for both stable > | > and unstable > | > on ftp.luon.net (deb ftp://luon.net/debian/ {un,}stable main). > | > > | > The only problem we have with them is that a apache2 > | > restart/reload will > | > causes a segmentation fault, but YMMV. > | > | The reason for which is because you are using 4.2.x. > | Only 4.3.x of PHP4 supports Apache2 properly. > | The problem with <4.3.x is that there is interference > | with some of the _modules_ of php which aren't thread safe > | The modules that one notices it the most are the database ones. > | Unfortunatly Debian still doesn't have any php4 4.3.x packages. > | Thus on debian apache2 + php4-cgi, that simply works as a cgi is > | only one thread and thus no problems with multithreading etc. > The problem with threaded approach on Apache2 is that almost > none of the libraries you're linking with are threadsafe. Simply use the prefork approach in Apache2 and you won't have problems with > threading (because it's simply turned off :-)
Indeed you'll still need to run it in prefork mode, but the 4.3.x branch includes several fixes that avoid the problems observed and simply make the apache2/php4 combo 'stable' which under 4.2.x it certainly is not. Greets, Jeroen
