Hello,
as a webmaster for largish university using Sun ONE Web Server (former
iPlanet) I've been wondering for a while what really is the status of PHP's
NSAPI SAPI module? It seems to stay unchanged from release to release, and
bugs relating to the worst problem with NSAPI (serving of PHP pages stops
at random) seem not to be solved. (And no, it is not a problem with file
descriptor limit setting in the operating system.)
Fact is, we need a reliably working PHP and currently we don't have that.
Which leads me to think about the servlet implementation, which probably
would be as efficient on Sun ONE server as NSAPI. Is the servlet SAPI being
developed? I tried it as of PHP 4.2.3, and it compiled fine using Sun's JDK
1.4.1_01 on Solaris 8, and with servlet.jar suppied with Sun ONE server. It
even partially worked. Now, using PHP 4.3.0 the servlet SAPI doesn't even
compile; the makefile directives are badly formed and do not point to
correct files. Hasn't anyone tested it before release?
I'm willing to test developmnents to both SAPIs and to provide feedback,
but I'm not fluent enough in C to contribute code. If one or both of those
SAPIs are being phased out, I'd like to hear that too, so that we can make
better recommendations to our users.
For reference, our platform is
- Sun Fire 280R server
- Solaris 8 (with recommended patches as of 2002/12)
- Sun ONE Enterprise Web Server 6.0SP5
- PHP 4.3.0
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Jari Lehtonen
Unix & Network Services
University of Turku, Computing Center
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