If interested, I wouldn't mind taking over the Apache 2.4 port for MacPorts. I have some experience there ;)
-- Jim Jagielski Brief? Mobile > On Nov 19, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Vincent Habchi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Marius, > > thanks for answering. > >> He has expressed that he is no longer interested in putting in the effort to >> make apache 2.4 the default (some work is needed, as apache2.4-devel has a >> different directory structure than apache2 (2.2)). > > Okay. > >> Two questions: >> >> 1) why do you want to use php 5.6, rather than php 7.0? >> 2) why do you want to use apache2handler rather than php-fpm? > > Hmmm… I need php5.6 because the webmaster of the sites (not me, I merely > administrate them) is still running an old Drupal 6 that – IMHO – is not > compatible with php7. > > What is php-fpm? > > Yes, I stumbled on several other mishaps while installing, notably PHP > extensions being named php_XXX.so instead of XXX.so in the httpd.conf > >> That having been said, until recently, I was using apache2.4-devel with >> php56 and apache2handler. I patched apr-util to use db48, rather than db46. >> I think adding Berkeley db variants to apr-util would be a good idea. > > Yeah, I did add a script of auto-detection, but I remember someone saying > this was not authorised in Macports. > >> However, I still use apache 2.4 and php 5.6 with apache2handler under >> FreeBSD… > > And so do I: the master I replicate is configured exactly this way :) > > Vincent >
