> On 15:25 Mon 12 Jan , felix zaslavskiy wrote: > > This is a common question maybe the php website should eleborate on > > the reasoning for not saying mod_php is not stablge on apach2. > > > > The reason as far as I know is because of thread safety. Apache 2 > > can be compiled with different multi processing modules (MPM). The > > default with gentoo is prefork which is default on gentoo. The other > > one worker and perchild involve threads. Not all libraries that link > > with php are thread safe therefore it would not be safe to use a > > thread based apache build with calls to libraries in php that are > > not thread safe. Php itself can be compiled thread safe ? Anyone > > with more knowledge like to eleborate on this topic ? > > Not to discredit the Apache crew in any way, but I believe I read the > exact same article/webpage/whatever you did and it concluded with > something like"The biggest reason of all not use Apache2 is simply > because regular Apache still works fine." And for me it does.
Yes apache 1.3 works just fine. There are undoubtedly improvments in apache2. There is problems that hinder its migration and php is one of the problems. Php and apache are married together in cases like webhosting. Are administrators waiting for apache2 to be declared safe with php before they migrate ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
